Australian fairy tales - Atha Westbury

BY
ATHA WESTBURY.
ILLUSTRATED BY A. J. JOHNSON.

LONDON:
WARD, LOCK, & CO., LIMITED,
WARWICK HOUSE, SALISBURY SQUARE, E.C.
NEW YORK AND MELBOURNE.
1897
All rights reserved.

CONTENTS.

	[“THE GLOBE SLOWLY SPLIT IN TWAIN”]							Frontispiece
								PAGE
	[“OUR HERO WENT SPRAWLING HEADLONG OVER HIM”]							20
	[“AT THE SIGHT OF HER THE ASS BEGAN TO BRAY LOUDLY”]							37
	[“ ‘SHAVE, OR HAIR CUT, SIR?’ ASKED THE BARBER”]							51
	[“A TALL, HANDSOME YOUNG MAN, ROBED IN A SUPERB HUNTING COSTUME”]							71
	[“GET UP, TOBY THE GROWLER, AND FOLLOW ME”]							83
	[“SPEEDING AWAY ACROSS THE COUNTRY AS SWIFT AS THE WIND”]							93
	[“A JACK-IN-THE-BOX … CAME AND REVILED HIM”]							102
	[“ ‘HURRAH!’ HE CRIED, TOSSING UP HIS HAT”]							119
	[“SEATED BENEATH A CANOPY OF ROSES”]							134
	[“ ‘PRAY TAKE OUT THOSE HORRID LONG SPIKES’ ”]							157
	[“THE FAIRIES FLED IN GREAT HASTE”]							165
	[“BOTH HE AND THE DOG WERE ENVELOPED IN A DEEP MIST”][[8]]							180
	[“HE WAS BORNE ALONG SO SWIFTLY THAT HE NEARLY LOST HIS SENSES”]							199
	[“HE WAS NOT CERTAIN WHETHER THE MONSTER WAS LEAPING OR FLYING”]							209
	[“ ‘WHY, SURELY, YOU’RE NOT THE MAN IN THE MOON?’ ”]							219
	[“THE LOVELY BEING TOOK NELLIE BY THE HAND”]							233
	[“IT WAS A GRAND BALLOON”]							245
	[“THE MONSTER … ADVANCED WITH A LARGE STONE”]							255
	[“THE OLD MAN BENT LOW BEFORE THE ICE MONARCH”]							266
	[“ ‘I AM QUEEN OF THE BUTTERFLIES,’ SHE REPLIED”]							268
	[“ ‘WHAT KIND OF BIRD ARE YOU?’ ”]							295
	[“ ‘YOU CAN’T BE OUR JACK?’ ”]							315
	[“ ‘THOU ART VERY STRONG FOR SO SMALL A MAN’ ”]							329
	[“ITS EYES WERE DREADFUL TOP BEHOLD, AS IT CAME SLOWLY OUT OF THE WATER.”]							352