Table of Illustrations

"Take care and don't let the baby fall"[8]
The Little Lame Prince[9]
"All the people in the palace were lovely"[10]
"The poorlittle kitchen maid..."[11]
"The procession had moved on"[14]
"How old is his Royal Highness?" [20]
"And in truth they were very fine children, the whole seven of them."[27]
"They made a great show when they rode out together on seven beautiful horses."[27]
"One large round tower which rose up in the center of the plain."[31]
"He was rather frightened, and the face, black as it was, looked kindly at him."[34]
"She laid those two tiny hands on his shoulders"[38]
"Prince Dolor had never seen anything like it." [43]
"Even when a little better, he was too weak to enjoy anything,"[45]
"By-and-by a few stars came out, first two or three, and then quantities"[56]
"She brought in the supper and lit the candles,"[58]
"And they looked at him—as if wondering to meet in mid-air such an extraordinary sort of a bird."[62]
"After a few windings and vagaries, it settled into a respectable stream."[69]
"It was made up of cornfields, pasturefields, lanes, hedges, brooks, and ponds."[71]
"In it were what the Prince had desired to see, a quantity of living creatures,"[71]
"The shepherd lad evidently took it for a large bird "[74]
"You are a king."[84]
"One half the people seemed so happy and busy..."[89]
"while the other half were so wretched and miserable."[89]
"It had terraces and gardens, battlements and towers."[90]
"Its windows looked in all directions,"[90]
"She pecked at the tiles with her beak—"[92]
There came pouring a stream of sun-rays[109]
So Prince Dolor quitted his tower...quitted it as the great King of Nomansland.[111]
"When he drove out through the city streets, shouts followed him wherever he went."[116]
"But as she was so grand a personage now, any little faults she had did not show."[118]
"All the people....assembled to see the young Prince installed
solemnly in his new duties, and undertaking his new vows."
[119]

"Take care, don't let the baby fall again."