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The Little Lame Prince

Chapter IV · Chapter 4

Chapter 4 of The Little Lame Prince is here in full — 144 sentences across 29 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

By Dinah Maria Mulock Craik • Curated US English Learning Edition

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And what of the traveling-cloak?

What sort of cloak was it, and what A good did it do the Prince?

Stay, and I'll tell you all about it.

Outside it was the commonest-looking bundle imaginable--shabby and small; and the instant Prince Dolor touched it, it grew smaller still, dwindling down till he could put it in his trousers pocket, like a handkerchief rolled up into a ball.

He did this at once, for fear his nurse should see it, and kept it there all day--all night, too.

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The Little Lame Prince

Chapter IV · Chapter 4

Chapter 4 of The Little Lame Prince is here in full — 144 sentences across 29 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

Reading 1/28 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5

Line 1

And what of the traveling-cloak?

Line 2

What sort of cloak was it, and what A good did it do the Prince?

Line 3

Stay, and I'll tell you all about it.

Line 4

Outside it was the commonest-looking bundle imaginable--shabby and small; and the instant Prince Dolor touched it, it grew smaller still, dwindling down till he could put it in his trousers pocket, like a handkerchief rolled up into a ball.

Line 5

He did this at once, for fear his nurse should see it, and kept it there all day--all night, too.

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A

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From this reading What sort of cloak was it, and what A good did it do the Prince?

about

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From this reading Stay, and I'll tell you all about it.

all

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From this reading Stay, and I'll tell you all about it.

And

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From this reading And what of the traveling-cloak?

at

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From this reading He did this at once, for fear his nurse should see it, and kept it there all day--all night, too.

ball

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From this reading Outside it was the commonest-looking bundle imaginable--shabby and small; and the instant Prince Dolor touched it, it grew smaller still, dwindling down till he could put it in his trousers pocket, like a handkerchief rolled up into a ball.

bundle

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From this reading Outside it was the commonest-looking bundle imaginable--shabby and small; and the instant Prince Dolor touched it, it grew smaller still, dwindling down till he could put it in his trousers pocket, like a handkerchief rolled up into a ball.

cloak

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From this reading What sort of cloak was it, and what A good did it do the Prince?

commonest-looking

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From this reading Outside it was the commonest-looking bundle imaginable--shabby and small; and the instant Prince Dolor touched it, it grew smaller still, dwindling down till he could put it in his trousers pocket, like a handkerchief rolled up into a ball.

could

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From this reading Outside it was the commonest-looking bundle imaginable--shabby and small; and the instant Prince Dolor touched it, it grew smaller still, dwindling down till he could put it in his trousers pocket, like a handkerchief rolled up into a ball.

day

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From this reading He did this at once, for fear his nurse should see it, and kept it there all day--all night, too.

did

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From this reading What sort of cloak was it, and what A good did it do the Prince?

do

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From this reading What sort of cloak was it, and what A good did it do the Prince?

Dolor

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From this reading Outside it was the commonest-looking bundle imaginable--shabby and small; and the instant Prince Dolor touched it, it grew smaller still, dwindling down till he could put it in his trousers pocket, like a handkerchief rolled up into a ball.

down

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From this reading Outside it was the commonest-looking bundle imaginable--shabby and small; and the instant Prince Dolor touched it, it grew smaller still, dwindling down till he could put it in his trousers pocket, like a handkerchief rolled up into a ball.

dwindling

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From this reading Outside it was the commonest-looking bundle imaginable--shabby and small; and the instant Prince Dolor touched it, it grew smaller still, dwindling down till he could put it in his trousers pocket, like a handkerchief rolled up into a ball.

fear

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From this reading He did this at once, for fear his nurse should see it, and kept it there all day--all night, too.

for

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From this reading He did this at once, for fear his nurse should see it, and kept it there all day--all night, too.

good

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From this reading What sort of cloak was it, and what A good did it do the Prince?

grew

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From this reading Outside it was the commonest-looking bundle imaginable--shabby and small; and the instant Prince Dolor touched it, it grew smaller still, dwindling down till he could put it in his trousers pocket, like a handkerchief rolled up into a ball.

handkerchief

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From this reading Outside it was the commonest-looking bundle imaginable--shabby and small; and the instant Prince Dolor touched it, it grew smaller still, dwindling down till he could put it in his trousers pocket, like a handkerchief rolled up into a ball.

he

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From this reading Outside it was the commonest-looking bundle imaginable--shabby and small; and the instant Prince Dolor touched it, it grew smaller still, dwindling down till he could put it in his trousers pocket, like a handkerchief rolled up into a ball.

his

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From this reading Outside it was the commonest-looking bundle imaginable--shabby and small; and the instant Prince Dolor touched it, it grew smaller still, dwindling down till he could put it in his trousers pocket, like a handkerchief rolled up into a ball.

I'll

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From this reading Stay, and I'll tell you all about it.

imaginable

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From this reading Outside it was the commonest-looking bundle imaginable--shabby and small; and the instant Prince Dolor touched it, it grew smaller still, dwindling down till he could put it in his trousers pocket, like a handkerchief rolled up into a ball.

in

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From this reading Outside it was the commonest-looking bundle imaginable--shabby and small; and the instant Prince Dolor touched it, it grew smaller still, dwindling down till he could put it in his trousers pocket, like a handkerchief rolled up into a ball.

instant

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From this reading Outside it was the commonest-looking bundle imaginable--shabby and small; and the instant Prince Dolor touched it, it grew smaller still, dwindling down till he could put it in his trousers pocket, like a handkerchief rolled up into a ball.

into

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From this reading Outside it was the commonest-looking bundle imaginable--shabby and small; and the instant Prince Dolor touched it, it grew smaller still, dwindling down till he could put it in his trousers pocket, like a handkerchief rolled up into a ball.

it

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From this reading What sort of cloak was it, and what A good did it do the Prince?

kept

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From this reading He did this at once, for fear his nurse should see it, and kept it there all day--all night, too.

like

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From this reading Outside it was the commonest-looking bundle imaginable--shabby and small; and the instant Prince Dolor touched it, it grew smaller still, dwindling down till he could put it in his trousers pocket, like a handkerchief rolled up into a ball.

night

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From this reading He did this at once, for fear his nurse should see it, and kept it there all day--all night, too.

nurse

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From this reading He did this at once, for fear his nurse should see it, and kept it there all day--all night, too.

of

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From this reading And what of the traveling-cloak?

once

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From this reading He did this at once, for fear his nurse should see it, and kept it there all day--all night, too.

Outside

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From this reading Outside it was the commonest-looking bundle imaginable--shabby and small; and the instant Prince Dolor touched it, it grew smaller still, dwindling down till he could put it in his trousers pocket, like a handkerchief rolled up into a ball.

pocket

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From this reading Outside it was the commonest-looking bundle imaginable--shabby and small; and the instant Prince Dolor touched it, it grew smaller still, dwindling down till he could put it in his trousers pocket, like a handkerchief rolled up into a ball.

Prince

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From this reading What sort of cloak was it, and what A good did it do the Prince?

put

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From this reading Outside it was the commonest-looking bundle imaginable--shabby and small; and the instant Prince Dolor touched it, it grew smaller still, dwindling down till he could put it in his trousers pocket, like a handkerchief rolled up into a ball.

rolled

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From this reading Outside it was the commonest-looking bundle imaginable--shabby and small; and the instant Prince Dolor touched it, it grew smaller still, dwindling down till he could put it in his trousers pocket, like a handkerchief rolled up into a ball.

see

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From this reading He did this at once, for fear his nurse should see it, and kept it there all day--all night, too.

shabby

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From this reading Outside it was the commonest-looking bundle imaginable--shabby and small; and the instant Prince Dolor touched it, it grew smaller still, dwindling down till he could put it in his trousers pocket, like a handkerchief rolled up into a ball.

should

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From this reading He did this at once, for fear his nurse should see it, and kept it there all day--all night, too.

small

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From this reading Outside it was the commonest-looking bundle imaginable--shabby and small; and the instant Prince Dolor touched it, it grew smaller still, dwindling down till he could put it in his trousers pocket, like a handkerchief rolled up into a ball.

smaller

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From this reading Outside it was the commonest-looking bundle imaginable--shabby and small; and the instant Prince Dolor touched it, it grew smaller still, dwindling down till he could put it in his trousers pocket, like a handkerchief rolled up into a ball.

sort

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From this reading What sort of cloak was it, and what A good did it do the Prince?

Stay

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From this reading Stay, and I'll tell you all about it.

still

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From this reading Outside it was the commonest-looking bundle imaginable--shabby and small; and the instant Prince Dolor touched it, it grew smaller still, dwindling down till he could put it in his trousers pocket, like a handkerchief rolled up into a ball.

tell

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From this reading Stay, and I'll tell you all about it.

the

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From this reading And what of the traveling-cloak?

there

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From this reading He did this at once, for fear his nurse should see it, and kept it there all day--all night, too.

this

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From this reading He did this at once, for fear his nurse should see it, and kept it there all day--all night, too.

till

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From this reading Outside it was the commonest-looking bundle imaginable--shabby and small; and the instant Prince Dolor touched it, it grew smaller still, dwindling down till he could put it in his trousers pocket, like a handkerchief rolled up into a ball.

too

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From this reading He did this at once, for fear his nurse should see it, and kept it there all day--all night, too.

touched

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From this reading Outside it was the commonest-looking bundle imaginable--shabby and small; and the instant Prince Dolor touched it, it grew smaller still, dwindling down till he could put it in his trousers pocket, like a handkerchief rolled up into a ball.

traveling-cloak

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From this reading And what of the traveling-cloak?

trousers

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From this reading Outside it was the commonest-looking bundle imaginable--shabby and small; and the instant Prince Dolor touched it, it grew smaller still, dwindling down till he could put it in his trousers pocket, like a handkerchief rolled up into a ball.

up

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From this reading Outside it was the commonest-looking bundle imaginable--shabby and small; and the instant Prince Dolor touched it, it grew smaller still, dwindling down till he could put it in his trousers pocket, like a handkerchief rolled up into a ball.

was

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From this reading What sort of cloak was it, and what A good did it do the Prince?

what

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From this reading And what of the traveling-cloak?

you

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From this reading Stay, and I'll tell you all about it.

Chapter 4 of The Little Lame Prince by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik holds 144 sentences, grouped into 29 reading sections of at most 5 sentences. The text is the public-domain source, unabridged, and the chapter records which sentences cover which part of the work so that nothing is dropped. Every word can be tapped for its pronunciation and dictionary entry.

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Chapter 4 holds 144 sentences of The Little Lame Prince, unabridged, divided into 29 reading sections.

This page carries chapter 4 of The Little Lame Prince by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik exactly as it stands in the public-domain source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 144 sentences, grouped into 29 sections of at most 5 sentences so that a reader can take the chapter in steady, finishable pieces. The chapter also stores a coverage record mapping every one of its sentences to a part of the work, which is how the edition demonstrates that no line was dropped.

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