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

'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

I

THE CAT-HOOD OF MAURICE

To have your hair cut is not painful, nor does it hurt to have your
whiskers trimmed. But round wooden shoes, shaped like bowls, are not
comfortable wear, however much it may amuse the onlooker to see you try
to walk in them. If you have a nice fur coat like a company promoter's,
it is most annoying to be made to swim in it. And if you had a tail,
surely it would be solely your own affair; that any one should tie a tin
can to it would strike you as an unwarrantable impertinence--to say the
least.

Yet it is difficult for an outside