Papylick arrived with his name written on his boots, which were yellow as toffee, and had no laces. This Papylick was made of slices of different coloured cake, and he, too, carried a box with the word "SOY" inscribed upon it, a word which began to interest Smaly, though he was determined not to betray his interest. Papylick had a nut in one hand, and opening it he put Redy inside and shut it up again. Smaly, too, was tired, and thinking it much better for him also to be carried, he said: "Papylick, my dear Papylick," and immediately shut his mouth again with the first finger of his left hand. Papylick opened another nut and placed Smaly inside it, then the Short-Legged Man put both nuts in his pocket. [Illustration: PAPYLICK] Now Smaly and Redy could not see the country they were being carried through because the nuts were closed; but Papylick had thought of this, and so the landscapes were painted complete in every detail inside the nuts. But Smaly and Redy, instead of admiring these landscapes, soon discovered they were painted with delicious sweetstuffs such as they had seen in the jars and pots of the Confectioner. So they licked off the landscapes. [Illustration] CHAPTER IV Smaly and Redy are not well received: They are thought to be made of painted cardboard: How the Despoiler fell into the water and left a foot behind him: Mistigris sticks a fish-bone into the back of the Despoiler: Judgment is passed on the two strangers: They will be banished at nightfall: The walls of the three gardens are discussed. The two rulers of this country were the Chief Contractor and the Despoiler. On arriving at the town where the rulers lived, Redy and Smaly could hear a hundred bells ringing out crystal chimes. These bells were made of coloured sugar and were hung in campaniles of barley-sugar, whose domes were made of gilded crusts. When the bells left off ringing, a beautiful song arose, and each person who sang it had a voice as sweet as that of the Short-Legged Man or of Papylick. "We must have arrived for the midday prayer of the Wigs," said Smaly and Redy to themselves in their nuts. Before very long Papylick and the Short-Legged Man arrived at the house where the Chief Contractor lived and went into the great kitchen. "Well," said the Chief Contractor, coming forward to meet them, "what have you brought me?" [Illustration: OPENING THE NUTS AND DISPLAYING THE TWO LITTLE PEOPLE] "A mere nothing," replied Papylick, opening the nuts and displaying the two little people, who, jumping out, became their normal size once more. [Illustration: LEADING BY THE HAND THE CHOCOLATE GRUB] "They are two suet-eaters," said the Short-Legged Man apologetically, as he made Smaly and Redy sit down upon two charming seats made of painted wax. There were more than a hundred of these seats round the enormous kitchen, each occupied by some noted Wig.