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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1890 Excerpt: ... 44.--THE LITTLE LAME PRINCE. II. By and by he began to learn lessons. His nurse had not been told to teach him, but she did it partly to amuse herself. She was not a stupid woman, and Prince Dolor was by no means a stupid boy. His cry, "What can I do 1 what can you find for me to do?" was now stopped, at least for an hour or two in the day. From this time a change came over the boy. He began to look sad and thin, and to shut himself up for hours without speaking. His nurse had been forbidden to tell him who he was, or what he might have been. He had no idea of anything in the world, except what he found in books. He used to think, if he could only fly out of the window, up to the sky or down to the plain, how nice it would.be! His nurse had once told him in anger that he would never leave the tower till he died. Perhaps then he might be able to do this. "I wish I had somebody to tell me all about it," he said,--" a real live person, who would be fond of me and kind to me. Ob, I want somebody, dreadfully!" As he spoke, there sounded behind him a slight tap-tap-tap, as of a stick or a cane. Twisting himself round, he saw--what do you think he saw 1 A little woman, no bigger than he might have been had his legs grown like those of other children. But she was not a child; she was an old woman. Her hair was gray, and her dress was gray. There was a gray shadow over her wherever she moved. She dropped her cane and laid two tiny hands on his shoulders. "My dear little boy, I could not come to you until you had said you wanted me. Now you do want me, here I am." "You are very welcome," replied the Prince, trying to speak politely, as princes always do in books. "May I ask who you are 1 Perhaps my mother?" He knew that little boys usually had a mother, and had wonde...
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