{"product_id":"2940013172531","title":"PRINCE RICARDO OF PANTOUFLIA","description":"CHAPTER I.\u003cbr\u003eThe Troubles of King Prigio.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e{Prince Ricardo and lady tied up: p13.jpg}\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I'm sure I don't know what to do with that boy!\" said King Prigio of\u003cbr\u003ePantouflia.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"If _you_ don't know, my dear,\" said Queen Rosalind, his illustrious\u003cbr\u003econsort, \"I can't see what is to be done.  You are so clever.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe king and queen were sitting in the royal library, of which the\u003cbr\u003eshelves were full of the most delightful fairy books in all languages,\u003cbr\u003eall equally familiar to King Prigio.  The queen could not read most of\u003cbr\u003ethem herself, but the king used to read them aloud to her.  A good many\u003cbr\u003eyears had passed--seventeen, in fact--since Queen Rosalind was married,\u003cbr\u003ebut you would not think it to look at her.  Her grey eyes were as kind\u003cbr\u003eand soft and beautiful, her dark hair as dark, and her pretty colour as\u003cbr\u003elike a white rose blushing, as on the day when she was a bride.  And she\u003cbr\u003ewas as fond of the king as when he was only Prince Prigio, and he was as\u003cbr\u003efond of her as on the night when he first met her at the ball.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"No, I don't know what to do with Dick,\" said the king.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe meant his son, Prince Ricardo, but he called him Dick in private.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I believe it's the fault of his education,\" his Majesty went on.  \"We\u003cbr\u003ehave not brought him up rightly.  These fairy books are at the bottom of\u003cbr\u003ehis provoking behaviour,\" and he glanced round the shelves.  \"Now, when\u003cbr\u003e_I_ was a boy, my dear mother tried to prevent me from reading fairy\u003cbr\u003ebooks, because she did not believe in fairies.\"","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47079345455344,"sku":"2940013172531","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013172531_p0.jpg?v=1763588896","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013172531","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}