. The little lame prince and his traveling cloak : a parable for old and young . rk this time, however, but a great blackand white creature that flew into the cloak,and began walking round and round on theedge of it with a dignified stride, one foot 158 The Little Lame Prince. before the other, like any unfeatherccl bipedyou could name. I havent the honor of your acquaint-ance, sir, said the boy politely. Maam, if you please. I am a mother-bird, and my name is Mag, and I shall behappy to tell you every thing you want toknow. For I know a great deal; and Ienjoy talking. My family is of great an
. The little lame prince and his traveling cloak : a parable for old and young . rk this time, however, but a great blackand white creature that flew into the cloak,and began walking round and round on theedge of it with a dignified stride, one foot 158 The Little Lame Prince. before the other, like any unfeatherccl bipedyou could name. I havent the honor of your acquaint-ance, sir, said the boy politely. Maam, if you please. I am a mother-bird, and my name is Mag, and I shall behappy to tell you every thing you want toknow. For I know a great deal; and Ienjoy talking. My family is of great an-tiquity ; we have built in this palace for hun-dreds—that is to say, dozens of years. Iam intimately acquainted with the King,the Queen, and the little princes and prin-cesses—also the maids of honor, and all theinhabitants of the city. I talk a good deal,but I always talk sense, and I dare say Ishould be exceedingly useful to a poor lit-tle ignorant boy like you. I am a prince, said the other gently. All right. And I am a magpie. Youwill find me a most respectable 160 The Little Lame Prince. all. One half the people seemed so happyand busy—hurrying up and down the fullstreets, or driving lazily along the parks intheir grand carriages, while the other halfwere so wretched and miserable. Cant the world be made a little morelevel ? I would try to do it if I were theking. But youre not the king; only a littlegoose of a boy, returned the Magpie loftily. And Im here not to explain things, onlyto show them. Shall I show you the royalpalace? It was a very magnificent palace. It hadterraces and gardens, battlements and tow-ers. It extended over acres of ground, andhad in it rooms enough to accommodatehalf the city. Its windows looked in alldirections, but none of *them had any par-ticular view—except a small one, high uptoward the roof, which looked onto the The Little Lame Prince. 101 Beautiful Mountains. But since the Queenf^L died there it had been closed, hoarded up
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