`` I should think so , '' said Ricardo , `` especially against those brutes of Electors ; they give trouble at home sometimes . '' `` You , too , are plagued with an Elector ? '' asked Prince Charles . '' An Elector ? thousands of them ! '' answered Dick , who never could understand anything about politics . Prince Charles looked puzzled , but requested Dick to explain his great plan . They sat down on the grass , and Ricardo showed them how he meant to manage it , just as he had told Jaqueline . As he said , nothing could be simpler . `` Let 's start at once , '' he said , and , inducing Prince Charles to sit down on the magic carpet , he cried : `` England ! St. James 's Palace ! '' But nothing happened ! The carpet was not the right magic carpet , but the one which King Prigio had put in its place . `` Get on ! England , I said ! '' cried Dick . But there they remained , under the chestnut tree , sitting on the carpet above the flowery grass . -LCB- But there they remained : p99.jpg -RCB- Prince Charles leaped to his feet ; his face like fire , his eyes glowing . `` Enough of this fooling , sir ! '' he said .
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