CHAPTER PAGE I. BRUNO’S LESSONS 1 II. LOVE’S CURFEW 20 III. STREAKS OF DAWN 36 IV. THE DOG-KING 52 V. MATILDA JANE 67 VI. WILLIE’S WIFE 82 VII. FORTUNATUS’ PURSE 96 VIII. IN A SHADY PLACE 110 IX. THE FAREWELL-PARTY 128 X. JABBERING AND JAM 147 XI. THE MAN IN THE MOON 162 XII. FAIRY-MUSIC 175 XIII. WHAT TOTTLES MEANT 194 XIV. BRUNO’S PICNIC 212 XV. THE LITTLE FOXES 233 XVI. BEYOND THESE VOICES 247 XVII. TO THE RESCUE! 262 XVIII. A NEWSPAPER-CUTTING 282 XIX. A FAIRY-DUET 287 XX. GAMMON AND SPINACH 310 XXI. THE PROFESSOR’S LECTURE 329 XXII. THE BANQUET 346 XXIII. THE PIG-TALE 363 XXIV. THE BEGGAR’S RETURN 381 XXV. LIFE OUT OF DEATH 400 General Index 413 List of Works 426
PAGE THE MARCH-UP 3 VISITING THE PROFESSOR 11 BOOTS FOR HORIZONTAL WEATHER 15 A PORTABLE PLUNGE-BATH 24 REMOVAL OF UGGUG 41 ‘WHAT A GAME!’ 48 ‘DRINK THIS!’ 53 ‘COME, YOU BE OFF!’ 62 THE GARDENER 66 A BEGGAR’S PALACE 72 THE CRIMSON LOCKET 77 ‘HE THOUGHT HE SAW A BUFFALO’ 79 ‘IT WAS A HIPPOPOTAMUS’ 91 THE MAP OF FAIRYLAND 96 ‘HE THOUGHT HE SAW A KANGAROO’ 106 THE MOUSE-LION 108 ‘HAMMER IT IN!’ 115 A BEAR WITHOUT A HEAD 117 ‘COME UP, BRUIN!’ 123 THE OTHER PROFESSOR 135 ‘HOW CHEERFULLY THE BOND HE SIGNED!’ 144 ‘POOR PETER SHUDDERED IN DESPAIR’ 147 ‘SUCH BOOTS AS THESE YOU SELDOM SEE’ 150 ‘I WILL LEND YOU FIFTY MORE!’ 154 ‘HE THOUGHT HE SAW AN ALBATROSS’ 165 THE MASTIFF-SENTINEL 172 THE DOG-KING 176 FAIRY-SYLVIE 193 BRUNO’S REVENGE 213 FAIRIES RESTING 226 A CHANGED CROCODILE 229 A LECTURE ON ART 240 ‘THREE BADGERS ON A MOSSY STONE’ 247 ‘THE FATHER-BADGER, WRITHING IN A CAVE’ 249 ‘THOSE AGED ONES WAXED GAY’ 252 ‘HOW PERFECTLY ISOCHRONOUS!’ 268 THE LAME CHILD 280 ‘IT WENT IN TWO HALVES’ 285 FIVE O’CLOCK TEA 296 ‘WHAT’S THE MATTER, DARLING?’ 307 THE DEAD HARE 321 CROSSING THE LINE 341 ‘THE PUG-DOG SAT UP’ 351 THE QUEEN’S BABY 363 THE FROGS’ BIRTHDAY-TREAT 373 ‘HE WRENCHED OUT THAT CROCODILE’S TOOF!’ 380 ‘LOOK EASTWARD!’ 395
PAGE SYLVIE’S TRUANT-PUPIL 8 KING FISHER’S WOOING 15 ‘SPEND IT ALL FOR MINNIE’ 22 ‘ARE NOT THOSE ORCHISES?’ 50 A ROYAL THIEF-TAKER 62 ‘SUMMAT WRONG WI’ MY SPECTACLES!’ 64 BESSIE’S SONG 75 THE RESCUE OF WILLIE 83 WILLIE’S WIFE 88 FORTUNATUS’ PURSE 103 ‘I AM SITTING AT YOUR FEET’ 119 MEIN HERR’S FAIRY-FRIENDS 163 ‘HOW CALL YOU THE OPERA?’ 178 SCHOLAR-HUNTING: THE PURSUED 188 SCHOLAR-HUNTING: THE PURSUERS 189 THE EGG-MERCHANT 197 STARTING FOR BRUNO’S PICNIC 230 ‘ENTER THE LION’ 236 ‘WHIHUAUCH! WHIHUAUCH!’ 242 ‘NEVER!’ YELLED TOTTLES 248 BRUNO’S BED-TIME 265 ‘LONG CEREMONIOUS CALLS’ 266 THE VOICES 267 ‘HIS SOUL SHALL BE SAD FOR THE SPIDER’ 268 LORDS OF THE CREATION 271 ‘WILL YOU NOT SPARE ME?’ 277 IN THE CHURCH-YARD 291 A FAIRY-DUET 304 THE OTHER PROFESSOR FOUND 317 ‘HER IMPERIAL HIGHNESS IS SURPRISED!’ 326 ‘HE THOUGHT HE SAW AN ELEPHANT’ 335 AN EXPLOSION 345 ‘A CANNOT SHAK’ HANDS WI’ THEE!’ 350 THE OTHER PROFESSOR’S FALL 352 ‘TEACHING TIGRESSES TO SMILE’ 365 ‘HORRID WAS THAT PIG’S DESPAIR!’ 367 THE FATAL JUMP 369 ‘BATHING CROCODILES IN CREAM’ 371 ‘THAT PIG LAY STILL AS ANY STONE’ 372 ‘STILL HE SITS IN MISERIE’ 373 ‘BLESSED BY HAPPY STAGS’ 377 THE OLD BEGGAR’S RETURN 382 ‘PORCUPINE!’ 388 ‘GOOD-NIGHT, PROFESSOR!’ 398 ‘HIS WIFE KNELT DOWN AT HIS SIDE’ 404 THE BLUE LOCKET 409 ‘IT IS LOVE!’ 411