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Prince Prigio, by Andrew Lang
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Title: Prince Prigio From "His Own Fairy Book"
Author: Andrew Lang
Release Date: June 25, 2007 [EBook #21935]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
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PRINCE PRIGIO
From "His Own Fairy Book"
By Andrew Lang
TO CHILDREN.
The Author of this book is also the Editor of the Blue, Red, Greenland Yellow Fairy Books. He has always felt rather an impostor, because so many children seem to think that he made up these books out of his own head. Now he only picked up a great many old fairy tales, told in French, German, Greek, Chinese, Red Indian, Russian, and other languages, and had them translated and printed, with pictures. He is glad that children like them, but he must confess that they should be grateful to old forgotten people, long ago, who first invented these tales, and who knew more about fairies than we can hope to do.
My Own Fairy Book, which you now have in your hands, was made up altogether out of his own head by the Author, of course with the help of the Historical Papers in the kingdom of Pantouflia. About that ancient kingdom very little is known. The natives speak German; but the Royal Family, as usual, was of foreign origin. Just as England ha