'_Your servant, Miss. Do I understand that you order me to mend this?_' 206 _The little girl had slapped Fina, and taken the pagoda away_ 214 '_We'll see if you are going to begin a-ordering of me about_' 218 _'Come by post, your Lordship,' said the footman_ 254 _'Excuse my hair, Sire,' he said_ 256 '_Speak to the dragon as soon as it arrives_' 262 _The two skated into each other's arms_ 270 _'Take that!' cried he, aiming an apple at the old man's head_ _facing page_ 306 _In the drawer was just one jewelled ring. It lay on a written page_ 346 _A black-winged monster, with hundreds and hundreds of eyes_ 350 _On the table stood the dazzling figure of a real full-sized princess_ 358 _A blowzy, frowzy dairymaid_ 362 '_You've got a face as long as a fiddle_' 366 AN OBJECT OF VALUE AND VIRTUE This happened a very little time after we left our humble home in Lewisham, and went to live at the Blackheath house of our Indian uncle, which was replete with every modern convenience, and had a big garden and a great many greenhouses. We had had a lot of jolly Christmas presents, and one of them was Dicky's from father, and it was a printing-press. Not one of the eighteenpenny kind that never come off, but a real tip-topper, that you could have printed a whole newspaper out of if you could have been clever enough to make up all the stuff there is in newspapers. I don't know how people can do it. It's all about different things, but it is all just the same too. But the author is sorry to find he is not telling things from the beginning, as he has been taught. The printing-press really doesn't come into the story till quite a long way on. So it is no use your wondering what it was that we did print with the printing-press. It was not a newspaper, anyway, and it wasn't my young brother's poetry, though he and the girls did do an awful lot of that. It was something much more far-reaching, as you will see if you wait.