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Australian fairy tales

LIST OF FULL-PAGE AND OTHER ILLUSTRATIONS.

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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” 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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