The rose and the ring: Or, The history of Prince Giglio and Prince Bulbo, a fire-side pantomime for great and small children

Prelude IT happened that the undersigned spent the last Christmas season in a foreign city where there were many English children. In that city, if you wanted to give a childs party, you could not even get a magic-lantern or buy Twelfth-N ight characters those funny painted pictures of the King, the Queen, the Lover, the Lady, the Dandy, the Captain, and so on with which our young ones are wont to recreate themselves at this festive time. My friend, Miss Bunch, who was governess of a large family, that lived in the Piano Nobile of the house inhabited by myself and my young charges (it was the Palazzo Poniatowski at Rome, and Messrs. Spillmann, two of the best pastrycooks in Christendom, have their shop on the ground-floor) ;M iss Bunch, I say, begged me to draw a set of Twelfth-N ight characters for the amusement of our young people.
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