CHAPTER VIII.
_The Prince is Puzzled_.
Prince Prigio did not go to bed.

It was bright daylight, and he had promised to bring the horns and tail of a Firedrake as a present to a pretty lady.

He had said it was easy to do this; but now, as he sat and thought over it, he did not feel so victorious.
"First," he said, "where is the Firedrake ?" He reflected for a little, and then ran upstairs to the garret.
"It _should_ be here!" he cried, tossing the fairies' gifts about; "and, by George, here it is!" Indeed, he had found the spyglass of carved ivory which Prince Ali, in the _Arabian Nights_, bought in the bazaar in Schiraz.

Now, this glass was made so that, by looking through it, you could see anybody or anything you wished, however far away.

Prigio's first idea was to look at his lady.