vants and to any one he happened to meet. And just as he had reached this discovery, the little boy or rather himself, disappeared and left him, or rather Orin, alone! Then out stepped the old wise man from behind the curtains. "Good-morrow, Prince!" said he. "Good-morrow, sir!" said Orin, or rather the Prince, politely. "That's it! That's it!" cried the wise man, delightedly. "Now everything will be all right!" Sitting down on the bed, he explained how every boy is two boys—the boy that he is and the boy that he could be, and how he had decided to give the little Prince the boy that he could be for a playmate. And then, of course, the little Prince explained how much he loved this little boy and begged the old wise man never to allow the little boy that he was to come back again—which the old man promised on the spot—and after that everything was delicious!
