قراءة كتاب The Zankiwank and The Bletherwitch: An Original Fantastic Fairy Extravaganza

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The Zankiwank and The Bletherwitch: An Original Fantastic Fairy Extravaganza

The Zankiwank and The Bletherwitch: An Original Fantastic Fairy Extravaganza

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The Zankiwank

and

The Bletherwitch

 

An Original Fantastic Fairy Extravaganza

 

 

"Imagination is always the ruling and divine power, and the rest of the man is only the instrument which it sounds, or the tablet on which it writes."

John Ruskin.

 

 

 

 


The ZANKIWANK & The BLETHERWITCH

BY S.J. ADAIR FITZGERALD
WITH PICTURES BY ARTHUR RACKHAM

LONDON J.M. DENT & CO.
ALDINE HOUSE E.C. 1896

 

 

All Rights Reserved

 

 

To

MY BLANCHE

I AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBE

THIS LITTLE BOOK


CONTENTS


PART I
A Trip to Fable Land 1

PART II
The Fairies' Feather and Flower Land 33

PART III
A Visit to Shadow Land 91

PART IV
The Land of Topsy Turvey 119

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

  PAGE
EVERYBODY MADE A RUSH FOR THE TRAIN Frontispiece
THE ZANKIWANK AND THE BLETHERWITCH Title Page
THE JACKARANDAJAM 5
MR SWINGLEBINKS 7
THEY WERE RUN INTO BY A DEMON ON A BICYCLE 17
BIRDS, BEASTS AND FISHES WERE HURRYING BY IN CONFUSING MASSES 19
THE FROGS ... PLAYING "KISS IN THE RING" 24
THEY WERE GLUED TO THE EARTH 27
THE ELFIN ORCHESTRA 37
I HAVE DISPATCHED THE JACKARANDAJAM AND MR SWINGLEBINKS IN A FOUR-WHEELED CAB 41
A COMPANY OF FAIRIES ... LEAPT FROM THE PETALS OF THE FLOWERS 45
THE SLY JACKDAWS AND THE RAVENS ... EVIDENTLY PLOTTING MISCHIEF 51
ONE OF THE PRETTIEST DANCES YOU EVER SAW 55
TITANIA ARRIVED ... WITH A FULL TRAIN OF FAIRIES AND ELVES 61
WILLIE PINCHED HIS EXCEEDINGLY THIN LEGS, MAKING HIM JUMP AS HIGH AS AN APRIL RAINBOW 64
PEASEBLOSSOM AND MUSTARD SEED 71
QUEEN TITANIA AND HER COURT OF FAIRIES WERE EATING PUDDINGS AND PIES 75
THE TWO CHILDREN TUMBLED OFF NOTHING INTO A VACANT SPACE 79
"KEEP THE POT A-BOILING," BAWLED THE ZANKIWANK 83
SO INTO SHADOWLAND THEY TUMBLED

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