Byron the Elf:...Time now for another visit with S.L.: Hello, children! Today's story is one that I'd like to call, "The Prince and the Dragon." (SFX: Music box) S.L.: Once upon a time there was a very brave and handsome prince, who had a most remarkable reputation for slaying dragons. He was known far and wide for the great skill and courage he possessed in fighting those beasts. One day he received a call that a most terrible dragon was scourging an entire nearby countryside, and so he immediately set out to dispatch it. As he passed through a dense forest, he was beset upon by a band of fifty scoundrels, who took him and bound him securely in chains to a nearby tree. There was absolutely no way of escape! Just as the band of scoundrels had departed, the terrible dragon approached the prince, opened his fire-breathing mouth, and... (SFX: Turning a page)...and... B: What's wrong, Story Lady? S.L.: Somebody's torn out the last page. B: Well, just ad-lib an ending. S.L.: Umm...the dragon ate the prince and lived happily ever after. B: Well, you can't have an ending like that! S.L.: But it said that there was absolutely no way of escape. B: Oh...Thank you, Story Lady. Be sure and tune in next time, boys and girls, when The Story Lady will tell us the laugh-loaded tale of what Cortez did to the Aztecs. (SFX: Music box out.) ©1968, 2002 Mel Blanc Productions. Home.