Davy and the Goblin or What Followed Reading Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - (illus)

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by  Carryl Charles E

DAVY AND THE GOBLIN
OR
WHAT FOLLOWED READING “ALICE’S
ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND”
BY
CHARLES E. CARRYL
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY E.B. BENSELL.
BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY

COPYRIGHT, 1884, 1885, 1912, AND 1913, BY THE CENTURY COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1885, BY TICKNOR AND COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1913, BY CHARLES E. CARRYL
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
TO GUY.
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EAR LITTLE OY, UPON THESE PAGES FIND

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HE TANGLED FANCIES OF THY FATHER’S MIND,

B
ORN OF THE HOURS WHEN THOU, A LITTLE CHILD,

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HRONED ON HIS KNEE IN BREATHLESS RAPTURE SMILED,

H
EARING ENTRANCED THE MARVELS THAT WERE TOLD

O
F FAY AND GOBLIN IN THE DAYS OF OLD.

W
OULD THAT THE GLAMOUR OF THOSE CLOUDLESS DAYS

M
IGHT CHEER THEE STILL, WHAT TIME THE TOILSOME MAZE

O
F RIPER YEARS HATH BANISHED FAIRY LORE—

A
ND BLITHESOME YOUTH HATH FLED TO COME NO MORE!
CONTENTS.
P
AGE
CHAPTER I.
H G 11
OW THE OBLIN CAME
CHAPTER II.
T B B V 19
HE EGINNING OF THE ELIEVING OYAGE
CHAPTER III.
I S P G 28
N THE UGAR- LUM ARDEN
CHAPTER IV.
T B 37
HE UTTERSCOTCHMEN
CHAPTER V.
J B F 42
ACK AND THE EAN-STALK’S ARM
CHAPTER VI.
T G B 53
HE IANT ADORFUL
CHAPTER VII.
T M F 63
HE OVING OREST
CHAPTER VIII.
S S H 79
INDBAD THE AILOR’S OUSE
CHAPTER IX.
L M 96
AY-OVERS FOR EDDLERS
CHAPTER X.
R 99
IBSY
CHAPTER XI.
R C I 110
OBINSON RUSOE’S SLAND
CHAPTER XII.
A W W 123
HALE IN A AISTCOAT
CHAPTER XIII.
T T W O S 134
HE ALKING AVES AND THE LD EA-DOG
CHAPTER XIV.
T E B V 145
HE ND OF THE ELIEVING OYAGE
ILLUSTRATIONS.
P
AGE
D G FRONTISPIECE
AVY AND THE OBLIN
I G 17
“‘ ’LL STEER,’ SAID THE OBLIN”
N M F 20
“ EXT CAME ARY ARINA”
T R D 21
HE ABBIT TAKES LIBERTIES WITH AVY’S PROPERTY
I C 26
“ ’M A OCKALORUM,” HE SOFTLY MURMURED
T C 34
“ HE ROWD BEGAN TO HUSTLE HIM ACROSS THE ROOM”
B 38
“ ELLS WERE PEALING IN ALL DIRECTIONS”
T G 41
“ HE OBLIN TURNED HIS TELESCOPE TOWARD HIM”
M H S 45
OTHER UBBARD SINGS A ONG
S 47
TANDING ON HIS HEAD
C G 48
“ AREERING ON A OAT”
J 55
“ UST LISTEN TO THIS”
C 61
“ OCKALORUM HEMMED IN BY A RING OF PITCHFORKS”
V D 65
“‘ ENISON IS DEER, ISN’T IT?’ SAID AVY, LOOKING UP AT THE SIGN”
H W S S 69
“‘ OW MANY ATCHES DO YOU WANT?’ SAID HAM- HAM, IN A PEEVISH VOICE”
S S D W 75
“ HAM- HAM, EXCLAIMING, ‘ ON’T TELL ME A WATCHED POT NEVER BOILS!’ BEGAN FIRING AT THE ATCHES”
T C 77
HE OCKALORUM IS ILL
T S D 85
“ HE AVAGE WAS SITTING IN THE SHADE OF ONE OF THE USTERS”
H 91
“ E PLAYED HOP-SCOTCH WITH THE STARBOARD WATCH”
H D G 94
“ E GAVE ONE HAND TO AVY AND THE OTHER TO THE OBLIN”
J 97
“ UST HOLD MY BASKET, LIKE A GOOD CHILD”
T C 101
“ HE ABMAN HAD CLIMBED UP ON THE TOP OF THE CAB AND WAS THROWING STONES AT THE HORSE”
R H 114
“ OBINSON REMARKED, ‘ E HAS LEFT OUT THE GREATEST LOT OF COMICAL THINGS’”
I 117
“ F THE ROADS ARE WET AND MUDDY, WE REMAIN AT HOME AND STUDY”
T C 126
“ HE OCKALORUM CAREFULLY INSPECTED THE MARKING”
I I D 127
“‘ ’M PRETTY WELL, THANK YOU,’ SAID AVY”
I 131
“‘ ’M AS NIMBLE AS A SIXPENCE,’ SAID THE WHALE”
D S D 137
AVY ASSISTS THE OLD EA- OG
A 140
“‘ VAST!’ SAYS HE, ‘WE’LL BEAR AWAY’”
H 141
E PLAYED WITH DOLLS AND HUMMING-TOPS
D 151
AVY FALLS INTO THE ELASTIC SPRING
F G 154
“‘ RECKLES,’ SAID THE OBLIN, ‘WHAT TIME IS IT?’”
D 157
“ AVY FELT MORALLY CERTAIN THERE WAS GOING TO BE A SCENE”
T E B V 161
HE ND OF THE ELIEVING OYAGE
DAVY AND THE GOBLIN;

OR, WHAT FOLLOWED READING “ALICE’S ADVENTURES
IN WONDERLAND.”
CHAPTER I.
HOW THE GOBLIN CAME.
It happened one Christmas eve, when Davy was about eight years old, and
this is the way it came about.
That particular Christmas eve was a snowy one and a blowy one, and one
generally to be remembered. In the city, where Davy lived, the storm played all
manner of pranks, swooping down upon unwary old gentlemen and turning their
umbrellas wrong side out, and sometimes blowing their hats quite out of sight;
and as for the old ladies who chanced to be out of doors, the wind came upon
them suddenly from around corners and blew the snow into their faces and
twisted their petticoats about their ankles, and even whirled the old ladies
themselves about in a very painful way. And in the country, where Davy had
come to pass Christmas with his dear old grandmother, things were not much
better; but here people were very wise about the weather, and stayed in-doors,
huddled around great blazing wood fires; and the storm, finding no live game,
buried up the roads and the fences, and such small fry of houses as could readily
be put out of sight, and howled and roared over the fields and through the trees
in a fashion not to be forgotten.
Davy, being of the opinion that a snow-storm was a thing not to be wasted,
had been out with his sled, trying to have a little fun with the weather; but
presently, discovering that this particular storm was not friendly to little boys, he
had retreated into the house, and having put his hat and his high shoes and his
mittens by the kitchen fire to dry, he began to find his time hang heavily on his
hands. He had wandered idly all over the house, and had tried how cold his nose
could be made by holding it against the window-panes, and, I am sorry to say,
had even been sliding down the balusters and teasing the cat; and at last, as
evening was coming on, had curled himself up in the big easy-chair facing the
fire, and had begun to read once more about the marvellous things that happened
to little Alice in Wonderland. Then, as it grew darker, he laid aside the book and
sat watching the blazing logs and listening to the solemn ticking of the high
Dutch clock against the wall.
Then there stole in at the door a delicious odor of dinner cooking
downstairs,—an odor so promising as to roast chickens and baked potatoes and
gravy and pie as to make any little boy’s mouth water; and presently Davy began