WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS
EDINBURGH AND LONDON
MDCCCLXXVII
_All Rights reserved_
_THE NURSERY HAS ITS SHARE OF MY DAY, IN SUCH FASHION THAT LITTLE PEOPLE
MAY NOT THINK BIG PEOPLE CREATED TO STOP FUN AND TO BE A THROTTLE-VALVE
ON ANIMAL SPIRITS. BUT THERE ARE ROMPS AND ROMPS, SOME BEING BEYOND AN
ADIPOSE SIX-FOOT-TWO. HENCE THIS STORY. PERHAPS IT WILL PROVE ACCEPTABLE
AT COOLING TIMES IN OTHER NURSERIES, AS IT WAS IN OURS._
_IT MAY BE THOUGHT THAT IN INTRODUCING A CERTAIN LITTLE LADY ALICENCE
HAS BEEN TAKEN. BUT ROYAL PERSONAGES ARE PUBLIC PROPERTY. WILL HE THAT
CROWNED QUEEN ALICE DEIGN TO ACCEPT THE TWO LITTLE PAGES DEVOTED TO HER
AS PROOF THAT IT IS HELD AN HONOUR TO FOLLOW IN THE TRAIN OF CARROLLUS
PRIMUS? FORBID IT THAT THIS ONE SHOULD LOSE HIS HEAD, OR BE ~FACILE~,
EXCEPT IN CONJUNCTION WITH ~PRINCEPS~. LONG LIVE CARROLLUS LE WIS! FOR IF
HE FAILED US, WHO COULD BE GOT IN LIEU IS A QUESTION. NEVER WAS THERE ONE
GREATER AT THE FEAT OF PUTTING THINGS ON A CHILD’S FOOTING, AND TO HAVE
BUT HALF HIS UNDERSTANDING OF HOW TO DO IT IS THE SOLE AMBITION OF ONE_
_JAMBE ON._
[Illustration: OUR TRIP TO BLUNDERLAND