I did not learn magic for nothing . Just you look the other way for a minute or two , and you will find the right fly at the end of your line . '' Dick turned his head away -LRB- it is not proper to look on at magical arts -RRB- , and then in a moment , saw the right hook on his cast ; but Jaqueline was not in the boat . She had turned herself into an artificial fly -LRB- a small black gnat -RRB- , and Dick might set to his sport again . `` What a trump that girl is , '' he said aloud . `` Clever , too ! '' and he began casting . He got a trout every cast , great big ones , over a pound , and soon he had a basketful . But he began to feel rather bored . `` There 's not much fun taking them , '' he said , `` when they are so silly . '' At that very moment he noticed that the fly was off his cast , and Jaqueline was sitting at the oars . `` You see , Ricardo , '' she said , `` I was right after all . There is not much pleasure in sport that is easy and certain . Now , apply this moral to dragon-killing with magic instruments . It may be useful when one is obliged to defend oneself , but surely a prince ought not to give his whole time to nothing else ! '' Dick had no answer ready , so he only grumbled : `` You 're always preaching at me , Jack ; everybody always is . I seem to have been born just to be preached at . '' Some people are ; and it does grow rather tedious in the long run . But perhaps what Jaqueline said may have made some impression on Ricardo , for he stuck to his books for weeks , and was got into decimal fractions and Euclid . All this , of course , pleased the king very much , and he began to entertain hopes of Ricardo 's becoming a wise and learned prince , and a credit to his illustrious family .
Things were not always XXXXX go smoothly , far from it ; and it was poor Jaqueline who fell into trouble next .
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