Nine Unlikely Tales

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Matilda swung her legs miserably	page 5
He waved away the eightpence	11
The top part of Pridmore turned into painted iron and glass	17
The Princess was like a yard and a half of white tape	21
The King sent his army, and the enemy were crushed	31
The King had turned into a villa residence	37
Four men came wheeling a great red thing on a barrow	43
They bounced through the suburbs	59
The seal was very kind and convenient	63
Suddenly, out of nothing and nowhere, appeared a large, stern housemaid	69
A long, pointed thing came slowly up out of the sand	73
It is difficult to play when any one is watching you, especially a policeman	79
The people of Antioch were always in a hurry and generally angry	89
Off they all went, King, court, and men-at-arms	99
Tony was stamped on by the great seal, who was very fierce	103
The giant-little-girl	107
Tony among the rocks in the bread-and-milk basin	115
“Everything you say will be used against you” said the public persecutor	121
He was growing, growing, growing	125
Malevola’s dress was not at all the thing for a christening	135
There stood up a Prince and a Princess	155
Trains of Princes bringing nasty things in bottles and round wooden boxes	173
The Princess grew so big that she had to go and sit on the common	181
The Princess in one scale and her hair in the other	189
“Welcome! Welcome!”	273
“Poor benighted, oppressed people, follow me!”	279