The whipping boy

Oh, to be a prince! To do any sort of mischief and to have a whipping boy to bear the burden of one's punishment...to have servants dress one, to feed one, to clean up after one...What a life!

But, perhaps, the life of a young prince is not the idyllic life others might imagine. For what does the prince, Prince Brat, as he is called by his people, want but to run away from his life. And away he runs, following his whipping boy, Jemmy, into a series of adventures involving cutthroats, kidnapping and ransom, a dancing bear, a hot-potato man, a rat catcher, and a chase down into the sewers.