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Title: Prince Vance
The Story of a Prince with a Court in His Box

Author: Eleanor Putnam
Arlo Bates

Illustrator: Frank Myrick

Release Date: May 30, 2009 [EBook #29005]

Language: English

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PRINCE VANCE

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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.

_TO THE BOY ORIC_

_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._

_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._

_Those who together wrought its colors gay,
And its fantastic warp and woof entwined,
May not again for you in work or play
Together labor. Yet the loving mind
In which they then were one will still be one
Till life and sense be done._

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