[Illustration] The Little Lame Prince By Miss Mulock Pictures By Hope Dunlap [Illustration] The Little Lame Prince and His Travelling Cloak by Miss Mulock With Pictures by Hope Dunlap Rand McNally Co Chicago New York London Copyright, 1909, by Rand-McNally & Company All rights reserved Entered at Stationers' Hall Edition of 1937 Made in U. S. A. [Illustration : Contents] Contents PAGE Chapter I 9 Chapter II 19 Chapter III 31 Chapter IV 43 Chapter V 53 Chapter VI 65 Chapter VII 81 Chapter VIII 91 Chapter IX 99 Chapter X 113 [Illustration: "_Take care, don't let the baby fall again._" _Page 15._] [Illustration: The Little Lame Prince] CHAPTER I. Yes, he was the most beautiful Prince that ever was born. Of course, being a prince, people said this: but it was true besides. When he looked at the candle, his eyes had an expression of earnest inquiry quite startling in a new-born baby. His nose--there was not much of it certainly, but what there was seemed an aquiline shape; his complexion was a charming, healthy purple; he was round and fat, straight-limbed and long--in fact, a splendid baby, and everybody was exceedingly proud of him. Especially his father and mother, the King and Queen of Nomansland, who had waited for him during their happy reign of ten years--now made happier than ever, to themselves and their subjects, by the appearance of a son and heir. The only person who was not quite happy was the king's brother, the heir-presumptive, who would have been king one day, had the baby not been born. But as his Majesty was very kind to him, and even rather sorry for him--insomuch that at the Queen's request he gave him a dukedom almost as big as a county,--the Crown Prince, as he was called, tried to seem pleased also; and let us hope he succeeded.