CONTENTS.
| Adventures in Wallypugland. | ||
| CHAP. | PAGE | |
| I. | How I Went to Why | [13] |
| II. | A Strange Welcome | [29] |
| III. | A Terrible Night | [40] |
| IV. | Late for Breakfast | [50] |
| V. | The Trial | [62] |
| VI. | His Majesty is Deposed | [74] |
| VII. | Foiled | [83] |
| VIII. | The Little Blue People | [94] |
| IX. | The Wallypug Recovers his Crown | [103] |
| X. | The Home of Ho-Lor | [116] |
| XI. | The Why and Wer-Har-Wei Railway | [131] |
| XII. | Back Again at Why | [145] |
| XIII. | A New State of Affairs | [155] |
| XIV. | “Good for the Complexion” | [165] |
| XV. | “Wallypug’s Blush Limited” | [175] |
| XVI. | “Au Revoir” | [187] |
| The Blue Dwarfs | [197] | |
MR. NOBODY.
CHAPTER I.
HOW I WENT TO WHY.
For some time past I have been the guest of his Majesty the Wallypug at his palace in the mysterious kingdom of Why—a country so remarkable that even now I am only just beginning to get used to my strange surroundings and stranger neighbors. Imagine, if you can, a place where all of the animals not only talk, but take an active part in the government of the land, a place where one is as likely as not to receive an invitation to an evening party from an ostrich, or is expected to escort an elderly rhinoceros in to dinner; where it is quite an everyday occurrence to be called upon by a hen with a brood of young chickens just as you are sitting down to tea, and be expected to take a lively interest in her account of how the youngest chick passed through its latest attack of the “pip.”