| He scrambled out of the cupboard, and the boots and goloshes fell off him like spray off a bather (p.24) | Frontispiece |
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| ‘If you think cats have such a jolly time,’ said Lord Hugh, ‘why not be a cat?’ | 7 |
| It was Mabel who untied the string and soothed his terrors | 14 |
| He landed there on his four padded feet light as a feather | 17 |
| When Jane went in to put Mabel’s light out, Maurice crept in too | 21 |
| Her bow went down suddenly | 28 |
| ‘Look!’ he said, ‘look!’ and pointed | 35 |
| Far above him and every one else towered the elephant | 39 |
| It became a quite efficient motor | 42 |
| Quentin de Ward | 58 |
| It landed on the point of the chin of Smithson major | 67 |
| ‘Who are you?’ he said. ‘Answer, I adjure you by the Sacred Tau!’ | 79 |
| The cart was drawn by an enormous creature, more like an elephant than anything else | 85 |
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‘Silence!’ cried the priest. ‘Chosen of the Immortals, close your eyes!’ | 91 |
| On the lower terrace the royal nurse was walking up and down with the baby princess that all the fuss was about | 98 |
| Instantly a flight of winged arrows crossed the garden | 109 |
| ‘I would kiss you on every one of your thousand spears,’ she said, ‘to give you what you wish’ | 123 |
| So we all sat on chairs in the drawing-room, and thought of nothing to say harder than ever | 208 |
| We scalped Eliza as she passed through the hall | 213 |
| Sidney threw the rug over her, and rolled her over and over | 215 |
| Early next morning he tried to catch fish with several pieces of string knotted together and a hairpin | 235 |
| A radiant vision stepped into the circle of light | 241 |
| There was a splash | 248 |
| ‘Oh, good-bye!’ he cried desperately, and snapped at the worm | 256 |
