THE BALLAD OF DUKE HEINRICCHIO
Philip’s Folly, c. 1866
By William MacClinton
Once upon a time,
In the days of the Holy Orenian Empire,
Lived a poor, lonely Duke by the name of Adrian Sarkozic.
One day, he started to carve a puppet from wood. “I’ll call the puppet Heinricchio,” he thought. “He will live with me and be like a son. But he won’t be a real Duke.”
First, he carved Heinricchio’s eyes. The eyes ope