The Giant Sorcerer

by William Whitman

THE EXTRAORDINARY ADVENTURES
OF RAPHAEL AND CASSANDRA:

by
WILLIAM WHITMAN 3^RD

PICTURES
by FRANK BOYD

HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
BOSTON NEW YORK

COPYRIGHT, 1927, BY WILLIAM WHITMAN, 3RD
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
The Riverside Press
CAMBRIDGE · MASSACHUSETTS
PRINTED IN THE U.S.A.

TO
WILLIAM WHITMAN
WILLIAM WHITMAN, Jr.
AND
WILLIAM WHITMAN, 4^TH

CONTENTS

I.	The Giant Sorcerer	[ 1]
II.	Gæa, the Earth Mother	[ 7]
III.	The Castle of the Sorcerer	[ 14]
IV.	Down to the Sea	[ 20]
V.	His Excellency the President	[ 28]
VI.	Off to War	[ 36]
VII.	Eagles! Eagles!	[ 44]
VIII.	On to Mechana	[ 52]
IX.	The Council of the Animals	[ 62]
X.	The Capture of Raphael	[ 74]
XI.	The Garden of the Sorcerer	[ 85]
XII.	Mechana	[ 95]
XIII.	To Save the World	[ 107]
XIV.	The Battle of the City	[ 115]
XV.	Victory and Defeat	[ 123]

ILLUSTRATIONS

The Navy of the Atlantic passed slowly before the President	[ Frontispiece]
‘I am Mechanus, the Giant Sorcerer’	[ 4]
‘Is this the Sorcerer’s Castle?’ Raphael shouted	[ 14]
‘Miss Cod, indeed!’ mouthed the Codfish	[ 22]
‘I shouldn’t go in there if I were you,’ warned the Sea Horse	[ 46]
‘Does that road lead to Mechana?’	[ 56]
Raphael seated himself on a dry log	[ 58]
‘A mouse might be able to find out more than any of the rest of us’	[ 68]
The Mechanico disappeared and summoned a large gang of other Mechanicos	[ 88]
Cassandra skipped gayly along beside Raphael who tried to keep step with Mechanus	[ 96]
The thing came suddenly to life marching off in company with fifty others	[ 102]
The war was over	[ 120]