Produced by David Edwards, Paul Dring and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) [Illustration: Davy and the Goblin] DAVY AND THE GOBLIN OR WHAT FOLLOWED READING "ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND" By CHARLES E. CARRYL _WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY E.B. BENSELL._ [Illustration] BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY The Riverside Press Cambridge 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. DEAR LITTLE BOY, UPON THESE PAGES FIND THE TANGLED FANCIES OF THY FATHER'S MIND, BORN OF THE HOURS WHEN THOU, A LITTLE CHILD, THRONED ON HIS KNEE IN BREATHLESS RAPTURE SMILED, HEARING ENTRANCED THE MARVELS THAT WERE TOLD OF FAY AND GOBLIN IN THE DAYS OF OLD. WOULD THAT THE GLAMOUR OF THOSE CLOUDLESS DAYS MIGHT CHEER THEE STILL, WHAT TIME THE TOILSOME MAZE OF RIPER YEARS HATH BANISHED FAIRY LORE-- AND BLITHESOME YOUTH HATH FLED TO COME NO MORE! CONTENTS. PAGE CHAPTER I. HOW THE GOBLIN CAME 11 CHAPTER II. THE BEGINNING OF THE BELIEVING VOYAGE 19 CHAPTER III. IN THE SUGAR-PLUM GARDEN 28 CHAPTER IV. THE BUTTERSCOTCHMEN 37 CHAPTER V. JACK AND THE BEAN-STALK'S FARM 42 CHAPTER VI. THE GIANT BADORFUL 53 CHAPTER VII. THE MOVING FOREST 68 CHAPTER VIII. SINDBAD THE SAILOR'S HOUSE 79 CHAPTER IX. LAY-OVERS FOR MEDDLERS 96 CHAPTER X. RIBSY 99 CHAPTER XI. ROBINSON CRUSOE'S ISLAND 110 CHAPTER XII. A WHALE IN A WAISTCOAT 123 CHAPTER XIII. THE TALKING WAVES AND THE OLD SEA-DOG 134 CHAPTER XIV. THE END OF THE BELIEVING VOYAGE 145 ILLUSTRATIONS. PAGE DAVY AND THE GOBLIN _FRONTISPIECE_ "'I'LL STEER,' SAID THE GOBLIN" 17 "NEXT CAME MARY FARINA" 20 THE RABBIT TAKES LIBERTIES WITH DAVY'S PROPERTY 21 "I'M A COCKALORUM," HE SOFTLY MURMURED 26 "THE CROWD BEGAN TO HUSTLE HIM ACROSS THE ROOM" 34 "BELLS WERE PEALING IN ALL DIRECTIONS" 38 "THE GOBLIN TURNED HIS TELESCOPE TOWARD HIM" 41 MOTHER HUBBARD SINGS A SONG 45 STANDING ON HIS HEAD 47 "CAREERING ON A GOAT" 48 "JUST LISTEN TO THIS" 55 "COCKALORUM HEMMED IN BY A RING OF PITCHFORKS" 61