Australian Fairy Tales

AUSTRALIAN FAIRY TALES.

“The globe slowly split in twain.” (Page 32.)

Australian Fairy Tales.] [Frontispiece

“The globe slowly split in twain.” (Page 32.)

Original Title Page.

AUSTRALIAN FAIRY TALES.

BY
ATHA WESTBURY.
ILLUSTRATED BY A. J. JOHNSON.

LONDON:
WARD, LOCK, & CO., LIMITED,
WARWICK HOUSE, SALISBURY SQUARE, E.C.
NEW YORK AND MELBOURNE.
1897
All rights reserved.

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CONTENTS.

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	“THE GLOBE SLOWLY SPLIT IN TWAIN”							Frontispiece
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	“OUR HERO WENT SPRAWLING HEADLONG OVER HIM”							20
	“AT THE SIGHT OF HER THE ASS BEGAN TO BRAY LOUDLY”							37
	“ ‘SHAVE, OR HAIR CUT, SIR?’ ASKED THE BARBER”							51
	“A TALL, HANDSOME YOUNG MAN, ROBED IN A SUPERB HUNTING COSTUME”							71
	“GET UP, TOBY THE GROWLER, AND FOLLOW ME”							83
	“SPEEDING AWAY ACROSS THE COUNTRY AS SWIFT AS THE WIND”							93
	“A JACK-IN-THE-BOX … CAME AND REVILED HIM”							102
	“ ‘HURRAH!’ HE CRIED, TOSSING UP HIS HAT”							119
	“SEATED BENEATH A CANOPY OF ROSES”							134
	“ ‘PRAY TAKE OUT THOSE HORRID LONG SPIKES’ ”							157
	“THE FAIRIES FLED IN GREAT HASTE”							165
	“BOTH HE AND THE DOG WERE ENVELOPED IN A DEEP MIST” [8]							180
	“HE WAS BORNE ALONG SO SWIFTLY THAT HE NEARLY LOST HIS SENSES”							199
	“HE WAS NOT CERTAIN WHETHER THE MONSTER WAS LEAPING OR FLYING”							209
	“ ‘WHY, SURELY, YOU’RE NOT THE MAN IN THE MOON?’ ”							219
	“THE LOVELY BEING TOOK NELLIE BY THE HAND”							233
	“IT WAS A GRAND BALLOON”							245
	“THE MONSTER … ADVANCED WITH A LARGE STONE”							255
	“THE OLD MAN BENT LOW BEFORE THE ICE MONARCH”							266
	“ ‘I AM QUEEN OF THE BUTTERFLIES,’ SHE REPLIED”							268
	“ ‘WHAT KIND OF BIRD ARE YOU?’ ”							295
	“ ‘YOU CAN’T BE OUR JACK?’ ”							315
	“ ‘THOU ART VERY STRONG FOR SO SMALL A MAN’ ”							329
	“ITS EYES WERE DREADFUL TOP BEHOLD, AS IT CAME SLOWLY OUT OF THE WATER.”							352

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