Davy and the Goblin / What Followed Reading 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'

directions, and the air was filled wit

y?" asked Davy

ee, they always butter their chairs so tha

vy, suddenly noticing that the Goblin ha

blin. "I always get blue when th

er us now?" inquired

m, and they can't get warm without running, you see. But the worst of it is that we can't stop

that?" s

oblin,-"curiosities, and all that sort of thing, you know. By

lt thing to do when you're running fast), and found, to hi

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ok this out of his pocket, the cork came out with a loud "pop!" and the flies flew away in all directions. Then came, one after another, a tart filled with gravel, two chicken-bones, a bird's nest with some pieces of brown soap in it, some mustard in a pill-box, and a cake of beeswax stuck full of caraway seed

now," said Davy, in

now," repeated the Gobl

t out, however, he was mortified to find that it was nothing but an old button; but the Goblin

ll, with the words "Pay Here" printed above it, and the Goblin whispered to Davy to hand in the button through this hole. Davy did so, feeling very much ashamed of himself, when, to his surprise, instead of receiving tickets in return, he heard a loud exclamation behind the wall, fol

ng one another in a very quarrelsome manner, and chattering like a flock of magpies, and he was just about to propose

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ng out of the square after the pole-bearer, like a flock of sheep, jostling an

ton," cried Davy, beginning to laugh, in spite o

n. "It's better than Snubgraddle, at all events. Let's have a look at th

edestals and carefully protected by transparent sugar shades. He was "THE GOBLIN TURNED HIS TELESCOPE TOWARD HIM." on the point of laughing outright at this ridiculous exhibition, when he saw that the Goblin had

; "the only wonderful thing about

large end, saw him suddenly shrink to the size of a small beetle, and then disappear altogether. Davy hastily reached out with his hand