E-text prepared by Roger Frank and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (https://www.pgdp.net) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original 70 illustrations. See 23523-h.htm or 23523-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/3/5/2/23523/23523-h/23523-h.htm) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/3/5/2/23523/23523-h.zip) ADVENTURES IN TOYLAND To my little friends Dorothy & Doris in recollection of the time we spent in fairyland together. Altemus' Young People's Library ADVENTURES IN TOYLAND What the Marionette Told Molly by EDITH KING HALL With Seventy Illustrations Copyright 1900 by Henry Altemus Company Philadelphia Henry Altemus Company Contents Page. Chap. I. AFTER THE SHUTTERS WERE UP 13 " II. THE RABBIT AND THE MOUSE 20 " III. BELINDA 57 " IV. THE OFFICER AND THE ELEPHANT 75 " V. THE LITTLE DANCER 93 " VI. THE HANSOM-DRIVER 107 " VII. PROUD CLARIBELLE 121 " VIII. THE GROCER AND THE FARTHING DOLL 139 " IX. THE LAST PERFORMANCE 156 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Molly and the Marionette, Frontispiece Page.