The rose and the ring; or, The history of Prince Giglio and Prince Bulbo; a fireside pantomime for great and small children . It was agreedthey should be married as soon as they reached the capital, and orderswere dispatched to the Archbishop of Blombodinga to hold himself inreadiness to perform the interesting ceremony. Duke Hedzoff carriedthe message, and gave instructions to have the royal castle splendidlyrefurnished and painted afresh. The duke seized Glumboso, the ex-prime minister, and made him refund that considerable sum of moneywhich the old scoundrel had secreted out of the late kin
The rose and the ring; or, The history of Prince Giglio and Prince Bulbo; a fireside pantomime for great and small children . It was agreedthey should be married as soon as they reached the capital, and orderswere dispatched to the Archbishop of Blombodinga to hold himself inreadiness to perform the interesting ceremony. Duke Hedzoff carriedthe message, and gave instructions to have the royal castle splendidlyrefurnished and painted afresh. The duke seized Glumboso, the ex-prime minister, and made him refund that considerable sum of moneywhich the old scoundrel had secreted out of the late kings also clapped Valoroso into prison (who, by the way, had been de-throned for some considerable period past), and when the ex-monarchweakly remonstrated, HedzofTsaid, A soldier, sir, knows but his duty ;my orders are to lock you up along with the ex-king Padella, whom Ihave brought hither a prisoner under guard. So these two ex-royalpersonages were sent for a year to the House of Correction, and there-after were oblifjed to become monks of the severest Order of Flagel- 136 HERE S A PRETTY PAIR OF KNAVES I. lants, in which state, by fasting, by vigils, by flogging (which thej-administered to one another, humbly, but resolutely), no doubt theyexhibited a repentance for their past misdeeds, usurpations, and pri-vate and public crimes. As for Glumboso, that rogue was sent to the galleys, and never hadan op])ortunity to steal any more. tf:ll us how the king behaves. 137 XVIIL HOW THEY ALL JOURNEYED BACK TO THE CAPITAL. The Fairy Blackstick, by whose means this young king and queenhad certainly won their respective crowns back, would come, not un-Irequently, to pay them a little visit—as they were riding in theirtriumphal process toward Giglios capital—change her Avand into apony, and travel by their majesties side, giving them the very bestadvice. I am not sure that King Giglio did not think the fairy andher advice rather a bore, fancying it was his own valor and me
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