• Portrait of Mr. Munchausen Frontispiece

Facing Page

• “There was the whale, drawn by magnetic influence to the side of The Lyre” 20
• “As their bullets got to their highest point and began to drop back, I reached out and caught them” 34
• “I got nearer and nearer my haven of safety, the bellowing beasts snorting with rage as they followed” 46
• “Jang buzzed over and sat on his back, putting his sting where it would do the most good” 56
• “Out of what appeared to be a clear sky came the most extraordinary rain storm you ever saw” 68
• “‘I am your slave,’ he replied to my greeting, kneeling before me, ‘I yield all to you’” 82
• “I reached the giraffe, raised myself to his back, crawled along his neck and dropped fainting into the tree” 94
• “They were celebrating Decoration Day, strewing flowers on the graves of departed missionaries” 102
• “I laughed in the poor disappointed thing’s face, and with a howl of despair he rushed back into the sea” 114
• “This brought my speed down ten minutes to the mile which made it safe for me to run into a haystack” 126
• “At the first whoop Mr. Bear jumped ten feet and fell over backward on the floor” 140
• “He used to wind his tail about a fan and he’d wave it to and fro by the hour” 152
• “Most singular of all was the fact that, consciously or unconsciously, the insect had butted out a verse” 164
• “Again I swung my red-flagged brassey in front of the angry creature’s face, and what I had hoped for followed” 170