Nine Unlikely Tales - E. Nesbit

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Matilda swung her legs miserably	page [5]
He waved away the eightpence	[11]
The top part of Pridmore turned into painted iron and glass	[17]
The Princess was like a yard and a half of white tape	[21]
The King sent his army, and the enemy were crushed	[31]
The King had turned into a villa residence	[37]
Four men came wheeling a great red thing on a barrow	[43]
They bounced through the suburbs	[59]
The seal was very kind and convenient	[63]
Suddenly, out of nothing and nowhere, appeared a large, stern housemaid	[69]
A long, pointed thing came slowly up out of the sand	[73]
It is difficult to play when any one is watching you, especially a policeman	[79]
The people of Antioch were always in a hurry and generally angry	[89]
Off they all went, King, court, and men-at-arms	[99]
Tony was stamped on by the great seal, who was very fierce	[103]
The giant-little-girl	[107]
Tony among the rocks in the bread-and-milk basin	[115]
“Everything you say will be used against you” said the public persecutor	[121]
He was growing, growing, growing	[125]
Malevola’s dress was not at all the thing for a christening	[135]
There stood up a Prince and a Princess	[155]
Trains of Princes bringing nasty things in bottles and round wooden boxes	[173]
The Princess grew so big that she had to go and sit on the common	[181]
The Princess in one scale and her hair in the other	[189]
“Welcome! Welcome!”	[273]
“Poor benighted, oppressed people, follow me!”	[279]

NINE UNLIKELY TALES

THE COCKATOUCAN
OR GREAT AUNT WILLOUGHBY