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CHAPTER XV

Smaly and Redy effect the rescue of the three young girls:
Djorak joins them and they all partake of a delightful picnic:
Smaly blows the Soy powder over the country of the Wigs:
Then the six friends go home 170

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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Fritilla and the Red Flying-Fish Frontispiece

The City Curious 16

They were known as the "Wigs" because of their Large Perukes 24

These Creatures did not resemble Anything that Redy and Smaly had seen up to then 32

Laptitza and Papylick 64

Some of the Dances were very complicated 96

Kisika in her Sedan-Chair 128

The Picnic which followed was an Unforgettable Repast 160

IN BLACK AND WHITE

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Redy 2

Smaly 3

In this Land all the Birds wore Hats and Spurs 4

Redy's Hands were crying with Fright 6

But he found he, too, had a Beak 7

They sang and danced 8

Neither the Latch nor the Hinge bore any Trace of having been bitten 10

Looking for the Key 11

Kangaroo-Confectioner 13

To carry the Last Curl as though it were the End of a Train 16

They made one want to Dance 17

With the Spoon which every Wig carries hung from his Belt 19

These Horses, however, were made of Sugar 20

The Sponges 21

To return to a Mere Shapeless Thing once again 23

A Traveller told us 24

Nevertheless Smaly and Redy started to help him 26

The Grub was really the doorkeeper 27

"We wish to have three girls" 28

The Crow lifted him up 29

The Crow 30