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