The adventures of Prince Prigio and of his son, Prince Ricardo . e could easilyrescue Ricardo from any very serious dangerat the hands of giants or magicians or only wanted to give him a fright or two, andmake him respect the judgment of older andwiser people than himselt 156 PRINCE PRIGIO. CHAPTER IV. TWO LECTUKES. For several days Prince Ricardo minded hisbooks, and, according to his tutors, made consid-erable progress in polite learning. Perhaps heought not to be praised too highly for this,because, in fact, he saw no means of distinguish-ing himself by adventures just at that t
The adventures of Prince Prigio and of his son, Prince Ricardo . e could easilyrescue Ricardo from any very serious dangerat the hands of giants or magicians or only wanted to give him a fright or two, andmake him respect the judgment of older andwiser people than himselt 156 PRINCE PRIGIO. CHAPTER IV. TWO LECTUKES. For several days Prince Ricardo minded hisbooks, and, according to his tutors, made consid-erable progress in polite learning. Perhaps heought not to be praised too highly for this,because, in fact, he saw no means of distinguish-ing himself by adventures just at that morning he would climb the turret, andsweep the horizon, and even much beyond tliehorizon, with the ivory spyglass. But look ashe would he saw no monsters preying on human-kind anywhere, nor princesses in distress. Tobe sure, he saw plenty of poor people in distress,and, being a good-liearted though careless lad,Dick would occasionally fly off, with the purse ofFortunatus in his pocket, and give them asmuch money as they needed—it cost him PRINCE RICARDO. 157 But this was not the kind of adventure which heenjoyed. Dragons for his money ! One day the Princess Jaqueline took a curi-ous plan of showing Ricardo how little interest,after all, there is in performing the most won-derful exploits without any real difficulty ordanger. They were drifting before a lightbreeze on a hill lake; Ricardo was fishing, andJaqueline was sculling a stioke now and then,just to keep the boat right with the had very bad sport, when suddenly thetrout began to rise all over the lake. Dick gotexcited and stumbled about the boat from sternto bow, tripping over Jaqnelines feet, andnearly upsetting the vessel in his hurry to throwhis flies over every trout he saw feeding. Butas too often occurs, they w^ere taking one par-ticular fly which was on the water, and wouldlook at nothing else. * Oh, bother them ! cried Ricardo. ^ I cantfind a fly in my book in the least like tha
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