vi CONTENTS

CHAP. PAGE
3. SOME ADVENTURES . ‘ a . 96
4. FURTHER ADVENTURES . E - 109
5, THE PALACE OF THE MOUNTEBANKS 129
6. THE CURSE—AND THE Way OUT . 143
7. HUMPLESS : ‘ ‘ 7 eESO

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

x. ‘There stood upon a projecting rock the figure
of a beautiful little lady’ . Frontispiece

2. ‘Anumber of little brown frogs, hopping about
and croaking’ 7 . Facing page 4
3. ‘A little man about three feet high, with bright
red hair and only one eye’ Facing page 30

4. ‘She was in a perfect puddle, and had not a
dry thread upon her’ . Facing page 56