LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
| PAGE | |
| EVERYBODY MADE A RUSH FOR THE TRAIN | [Frontispiece] |
| THE ZANKIWANK AND THE BLETHERWITCH | [Title Page] |
| THE JACKARANDAJAM | [5] |
| MR SWINGLEBINKS | [7] |
| THEY WERE RUN INTO BY A DEMON ON A BICYCLE | [17] |
| BIRDS, BEASTS AND FISHES WERE HURRYING BY IN CONFUSING MASSES | [19] |
| THE FROGS ... PLAYING "KISS IN THE RING" | [24] |
| THEY WERE GLUED TO THE EARTH | [27] |
| THE ELFIN ORCHESTRA | [37] |
| I HAVE DISPATCHED THE JACKARANDAJAM AND MR SWINGLEBINKS IN A FOUR-WHEELED CAB | [41] |
| A COMPANY OF FAIRIES ... LEAPT FROM THE PETALS OF THE FLOWERS | [45] |
| THE SLY JACKDAWS AND THE RAVENS ... EVIDENTLY PLOTTING MISCHIEF | [51] |
| ONE OF THE PRETTIEST DANCES YOU EVER SAW | [55] |
| TITANIA ARRIVED ... WITH A FULL TRAIN OF FAIRIES AND ELVES | [61] |
| WILLIE PINCHED HIS EXCEEDINGLY THIN LEGS, MAKING HIM JUMP AS HIGH AS AN APRIL RAINBOW | [64] |
| PEASEBLOSSOM AND MUSTARD SEED | [71] |
| QUEEN TITANIA AND HER COURT OF FAIRIES WERE EATING PUDDINGS AND PIES | [75] |
| THE TWO CHILDREN TUMBLED OFF NOTHING INTO A VACANT SPACE | [79] |
| "KEEP THE POT A-BOILING," BAWLED THE ZANKIWANK | [83] |
| SO INTO SHADOWLAND THEY TUMBLED | [87] |
| A WHOLE SCHOOL OF CHILDREN FOLLOWING MADLY IN THEIR WAKE | [95] |
| THE GOBLINS STARTED OFF ON HORSEBACK | [101] |
| "THE UNFORTUNATE DOLL" | [103] |
| THE WINNY WEG WAS DANCING IN A CORNER ALL BY HERSELF | [106] |
| MAUDE AND WILLIE WERE RECLINING PEACEFULLY ON A GOLDEN COUCH WITH SILVER CUSHIONS | [107] |
| A GAME OF LEAP-FROG | [108] |
| A GREAT RED CAVERN OPENED AND SWALLOWED UP EVERYTHING | [117] |
| "NOW THEN, MOVE ON!" | [123] |
| THE WIMBLE AND THE WAMBLE | [126] |
| JORUMGANDER THE YOUNGER ... APPROACHED THEM WITH A CASE OF PENS | [133] |
| "WHY, HERE HE IS!" | [138] |
| THE ZANKIWANK ARGUING WITH THE CLERK OF THE WEATHER AND THE WEATHER COCK | [145] |
| TIME WAS MEANT FOR SLAVES | [151] |
| CHILDREN WITH THE ODDEST HEADS AND FACES EVER SEEN | [158, 159] |
| IT WAS A SORT OF SKELETON | [163] |
| THE GRIFFIN AND THE PHŒNIX | [170] |
| THEY SPRANG INTO THE HASH | [173] |
| DR PAMPLETON | [177] |
| NO ONE INDIVIDUAL GOT HIS OWN PROPER LIMBS FASTENED TO HIM | [183] |
| THERE WAS JOHN OPENING THE CARRIAGE DOOR FOR THEM TO GET OUT | [187] |
Part I
A Trip to Fable Land
By the Queen-Moon's mystic light,
By the hush of holy night,
By the woodland deep and green,
By the starlight's silver sheen,
By the zephyr's whispered spell,
Brooding Powers Invisible,
Faerie Court and Elfin Throng,
Unto whom the groves belong,
And by Laws of ancient date,
Found in Scrolls of Faerie Fate,
Stream and fount are dedicate.
Whereso'er your feet to-day
Far from haunts of men may stray,
We adjure you stay no more
Exiles on an alien shore,
But with spells of magic birth
Once again make glad the earth.
Philip Dayre.
A Trip to Fable Land
"Well," said the Zankiwank as he swallowed another jam tart, "I think we had better start on our travels at once."