ILLUSTRATIONS
| 1. | “Then I will begin,” said Solario the Tailor, “the story of——” | [ Frontispiece] |
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| 2. | Solario was sitting on his worktable busily plying the needle | [4] |
| 3. | The Unicorn stamped and gave a piercing neigh | [20] |
| 4. | “There is something here,” said the old beggar, “which I wish to buy” | [36] |
| 5. | Mortimer the Executioner was being measured by Solario for a suit | [74] |
| 6. | “You are welcome, master peddler,” said Babadag | [98] |
| 7. | “Beauty in tatters!” said Babadag the Tailor | [110] |
| 8. | The shadow of a Ragpicker oozed in through the door | [134] |
| 9. | The one-armed sorcerer plucked a feather from the stork | [156] |
| 10. | The genie flew away with Tush and his sister | [178] |
| 11. | The genie swung him back and forth and tossed him out to sea | [204] |
| 12. | “I held my trusty blade on high and took from him his money” | [212] |
TO BE READ FIRST
IN the book called “The Enchanted Forest” it is related— But I hope that you have read that book, or at least that you sincerely intend to do so as soon as you have time, but no matter; it is all about a Forest Kingdom, and a Great Forest that was enchanted by a witch, an irritable sort of person who— Not that she was to be blamed altogether, in my judgment, for she had been provoked to it by a page boy belonging to the King of the Forest, and I am personally not surprised that this young rogue was in consequence spirited away in the middle of the night, no one knew whither.
Another boy (quite a different sort) named Bilbo, son of one Bodad a woodchopper, managed to disenchant the forest and destroy the witch, and for this he was given, when he was old enough, the hand of the King’s daughter, the Princess Dorobel; and in course of time there came to them a little son, by name Bojohn.