you have insulted your prince and your superior officer . Consider yourself under arrest ! You shall be sent to a prison to-morrow . '' On this , the poor officer appealed piteously to everybody in the tavern . They all declared that they had not seen the prince , nor even had an idea that he was doing them the honour of being in the neighbourhood of their town . More and more offended , and convinced that there was a conspiracy to annoy and insult him , the prince shouted for the landlord , called for his bill , threw down his three pieces of gold without asking for change , and went into the street . `` It is a disgraceful conspiracy , '' he said . `` The king shall answer for this ! I shall write to the newspapers at once ! '' He was not put in a better temper by the way in which people hustled him in the street . They ran against him exactly as if they did not see him , and then staggered back in the greatest surprise , looking in every direction for the person they had jostled . In one of these encounters , the prince pushed so hard against a poor old beggar woman that she fell down . As he was usually most kind and polite , he pulled off his cap to beg her pardon , when , behold , the beggar woman gave one dreadful scream , and fainted ! A crowd was collecting , and the prince , forgetting that he had thrown down all his money in the tavern , pulled out his purse . Then he remembered what he had done , and expected to find it empty ; but , lo , there were three pieces of gold in it ! Overcome with surprise , he thrust the money into the woman 's hand , and put on his cap again . In a moment the crowd , which had been staring at him , rushed away in every direction , with cries of terror , declaring that there was a magician in the town , and a fellow who could appear and disappear at pleasure ! -LCB- The crowd running : p42.jpg -RCB- By this time , you or I , or anyone who was not so extremely clever as Prince Prigio , would have understood what was the matter . He had put on , without knowing it , not only the seven-league boots , but the cap of darkness , and had taken Fortunatus 's purse , which could never be empty , however often you took all the money out . All those and many other delightful wares the fairies had given him at his christening , and the prince had found them in the dark garret .
But the prince was so extremely wise , and learned , and scientific , XXXXX he did not believe in fairies , nor in fairy gifts .
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