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.”