_Matilda swung her legs miserably_ _page_ 5
_He waved away the eightpence_ 11
_The top part of Pridmore turned into painted iron
and glass_ 17
_The Princess was like a yard and a half of white tape_ 21
_The King sent his army, and the enemy were crushed_ 31
_The King had turned into a villa residence_ 37
_Four men came wheeling a great red thing on a barrow_ 43
_They bounced through the suburbs_ 59
_The seal was very kind and convenient_ 63
_Suddenly, out of nothing and nowhere, appeared a large,
stern housemaid_ 69
_A long, pointed thing came slowly up out of the sand_ 73
_It is difficult to play when any one is watching you,
especially a policeman_ 79
_The people of Antioch were always in a hurry and
generally angry_ 89
_Off they all went, King, court, and men-at-arms_ 99
_Tony was stamped on by the great seal, who was very
fierce_ 103
_The giant-little-girl_ 107
_Tony among the rocks in the bread-and-milk basin_ 115
_“Everything you say will be used against you” said the
public persecutor_ 121
_He was growing, growing, growing_ 125
_Malevola’s dress was not at all the thing for a
christening_ 135
_There stood up a Prince and a Princess_ 155
_Trains of Princes bringing nasty things in bottles and
round wooden boxes_ 173
_The Princess grew so big that she had to go and sit on
the common_ 181
_The Princess in one scale and her hair in the other_ 189
“_Welcome! Welcome!_” 273
“_Poor benighted, oppressed people, follow me!_” 279