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Prince Vance: The Story of a Prince with a Court in His Box
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Prince Vance
The Story of a Prince with a Court in his Box
BY
ELEANOR PUTNAM and ARLO BATES
ILLUSTRATED BY FRANK MYRICK
BOSTON
ROBERTS BROTHERS
1888
Copyright, 1888,
By Arlo Bates.
University Press:
John Wilson and Son, Cambridge, U.S.A.
Dear son, this twisted, tangled web of whims
For you was woven while you scarcely knew
The simplest speech men use; but infant limbs,
That round and smooth in dimpled fairness grew,
Waved for all word in a babe's perfect glee,
So wondrous sweet to see.
For you was woven while you scarcely knew
The simplest speech men use; but infant limbs,
That round and smooth in dimpled fairness grew,
Waved for all word in a babe's perfect glee,
So wondrous sweet to see.
It is not stranger than this world must seem
To one who its vagaries first does scan;
It is less weird than the enchanted dream
Which life may change to ere you be a man.
Such as it is, take it for this alone,—
That it is all your own.
To one who its vagaries first does scan;
It is less weird than the enchanted dream
Which life may change to ere you be a man.
Such as it is, take it for this alone,—
That it is all your own.
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
| Page | |
| The Fairy Copetta and the Prince | Frontispiece |
| Initial: Chapter I | 15 |
| Initial: Chapter II | 20 |
| "'Come,' he said to the Prince, in rather an injured tone" | 21 |
| "He picked up the poor tutor, and putting him on the window-sill laughed at him" | 24 |
| Tailpiece: "'It is in here,' the Blue Wizard said, holding out a pretty gold bonbon box" | 25 |
| Initial: Chapter III | 26 |
| The Royal Table, with the Court Shrinking | 27 |
| "'Oh, as to that,' the Blue Wizard answered carelessly, giving the King in turn a bath in the finger-bowl" | 31 |
| Tailpiece: "He seated his royal mother on the top of the sugar-bowl" | 33 |
| Initial: Chapter IV | 34 |
| Tailpiece: The Hissing Swans | 40 |
| Initial: Chapter V | 41 |
| "The Lord Chancellor, who seemed to be always in trouble, picked some sort of quarrel with a large green grasshopper" | 44 |
| "He moved from a bunch of thistles which he had carefully stripped to the next" | 46 |
| Initial: Chapter VI | 50 |
| "'How do you know?' demanded the raven, fixing his glittering eye on the Prince" | 51 |
| "But presently a little window opened in the side of the tree trunk, from which a wrinkled old face looked out" | 56 |
| Initial: Chapter VII | 59 |
| "'But I want it in my mouth,' sighed the man on the ground" | |