Otherwise, how could he meet his lady ?--why, she would think him a mere braggart! The prince sat down, and thought and thought; and the day went on, and it was now high noon.
At last he jumped up and rushed into the library, a room where nobody ever went except himself and the queen.

There he turned the books upside down, in his haste, till he found an old one, by a French gentleman, Monsieur Cyrano de Bergerac.

It was an account of a voyage to the moon, in which there is a great deal of information about matters not generally known; for few travellers have been to the moon.

In that book, Prince Prigio fancied he would find something he half remembered, and that would be of use to him.

And he _did_! So you see that cleverness, and minding your book, have some advantages, after all.