Year: 1873

formed his tricks, and so they got
a free passage on the way and ar
| rived at the wild country. Here
reigned a little Princess. She was
only eight years old, but she was
rcigning. She had taken away
| the power from her father and
mother, for she had a will, aad
then she was extraordinarily beau
tiful-and rude.


Just as soon as the flea had
presented arms and fired off the
cannon, she was so enraptured
with him that she said, "Him or
nobody" She became quite wild
with love and was already wild
in other ways.


Sweet, little, sensible child"
said her own father. IF one
could only first make q man OF
him.


"Leave that to me old man: >
said she, and that WAS not wei!
said by a little Princess when
talking with her father, but she
! was wild. Sne set the flea on her
white hand.


! "Now you are man: reignlng
with me, but you shall do what l
want you to, or else I'll kill you
| and eat the Professor" The
Professor had great hall to live
in. The walls were made OF
sugar-cane, and he could lick
| them, but his was not sweet
| tooth. He had a hammock to
sleep in. It was as if he were
| living III q balloon, such as he had
always wished for himsclf-that
Vas his constant thought.
The hea lived with the Princess,
sat upon her delicate hand and
upon her white neck. She had
taken q hair from her head and
made the Professor tie it to the
fea's leg, and so she kept him tied
to the great red coral drop which
she wore in her ear-tip. What a
delightful time the Princess had
and the flea too, she thought, but
the Professor was not very com.
Portable. He was a traveller; he
liked to drive from town to town.
| and read about his perseverance
and cleverness in teaching a flea
to do what men do. But he got
out OF and into his hammock.
lounged about and had good feed
ing, fresh birds eggs, elephants
eyes aud roast giraffe. People
that eat men do not live entirely
on cooked men-no, that is q
great delicacy:


"Shoulder Of children with sharp
suace," said the Princcss's mother
sis the most delicate"


The Professor was tired Of il
all AND would rather 60 away
from the wild land, but he must
have the flea with him, for that
was his prodigy, and his breac
and butter. How was he to gel
hold Of him? That was no easy
matter. He strained all his wit:
and then he said:


Now have it"


"Princess's Father! grant me
favor. May I summon your sub
jects to present themselves before
your Royal Higbness? That il
what is called a ceremony in th'
high and mighty powers OF th'
world"


"Can I, too, learn to do that?'
asked the Priucess's father:


"That is not quite proper" re
piled the Professor, "but l shaI
teach your wild Partnership to tir
a cannon off. 1t goes off with
bang. One sits high up aloft,; an(
then off it goes or down he comes.


"Let me crack it off," said th
Princess's father. But in all to-
land there was no cannon excep
the one the flea had brought, AM
that was so very small.


Il will cast a bigger one" sai'
the Professor. "Only give me th
means. l must have fine silk stuff
needle and thread, rope and cord
together with cordial drops 70
the balloon, they blow one up 81
easily and give one tbs heaves
they are what makes the repor
in the caunon's inside"


by all MEANS" said the Prin
cess's father, and gave him all h
called for. All the court and th
entire population came togethe
; to see the great cannon cast
The Professor did not summer
them before he had the balloon
entirely ready to be filled and g
no. The flea sat on the Princess
hand and looked on. The balloon
was filled, it bulged out and coul
scarcely be held down, so violen
did it become.
81 must have it up in the al
before it can be cooled off" sal
the Professor, and took his sea
in the car which hung below
"But ! cspnUt msasge and stee