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OY was far too excited to go to sleep, so he lay gazing at the crescent Moon which shone through the window opposite his bed and thought of all the wonderful things which had happened on this most eventful of days. To begin quite at the beginning, he had, in his thoughts, to g...
HE Lord High Adjudicator had barely made this announcement when the attendant returned, followed by a rosy-cheeked woman in a very bright shawl and a bonnet with an enormous qua...
5. CHAPTER V.--THE COUNCILLORS OF ZUM.“Oh, nonsense, my dear M.D.” said the Lord High Fiddle-de-dee. “State matters of the utmost importance demand my immediate attendance at the House of Words, and I must go whethe...
4. CHAPTER IV.--M.D. AND THE DOCTOR’S BILL.HEY found a boat waiting when they reached the Station, and Professor Crab having purchased the tickets they went on board the singular conveyance. They had hardly taken their s...
11. CHAPTER XI.--WHAT HAPPENED IN THE GRIM FOREST.HEY entered the Palace gardens by the private gate, the key of which King Smith I. had given to Boy before he started, and were walking towards Boy’s apartments when they met Hi...
2. CHAPTER II.--THE PARTY AT SAND CASTLE.ROWING shorter and shorter as he hurried along, Boy noticed that the Moon had gone back to its usual place in the sky, and that Pierrot was nowhere to be seen.
8. CHAPTER VIII.--OH AH, THE MAGICIAN.“I think I have the pleasure of addressing His Importance the Lord High Adjudicator, have I not?” replied Ohah. “I scarcely recognised you in that--ahem--that costume,” he added...
9. CHAPTER IX.--THE ELECTION.“I shall very likely have been made King by that time,” remarked the footman with his nose in the air. “You can still stay at the Palace, though, if you like.”
3. CHAPTER III.--PROFESSOR CRAB.OOD gracious! whatever am I to do now?” thought Boy, for the tide was rising higher and higher every moment, and there seemed to be no possible way of getting back to the shore...
12. CHAPTER XII.--THE CONCLUSION OF THE WHOLE MATTER.F course the news of the Crown Prince’s return was soon known throughout the kingdom, and all the Kings and Queens being thoroughly tired of the complications which had arisen t...
10. CHAPTER X.--“KINGS AND QUEENS GALORE.URRYING back to the Palace Boy found a great crowd of people on the steps at the principal entrance--most of them carried bundles and parcels, and some even had articles of furn...
7. CHAPTER VII.--A STRANGE PARLIAMENT.HEN Boy awoke the next morning he found the whole Palace in a commotion. Most of the Royal Household had been up all night making grand preparations for the Coronation of the yo...
1. CHAPTER I.--PIERROT AND THE MOON.OY was far too excited to go to sleep, so he lay gazing at the crescent Moon which shone through the window opposite his bed and thought of all the wonderful things which had ha...