The Book of Wonder

a man-horse now!” he shouted aloud; and leap­ing from crag to crag he gal­loped by val­ley and

des­per­ate

cen­taur went to the golden cof­fer, wherein the treas­ure of the cen­taurs was, and tak­ing from it the hoarded am­u­let

Come with me, ladies and gen­tle­men who are in any wise weary of Lon­don: come with me: and those that tire at all of the

My thanks are due to the Ed­itor of The Sketch for per­mis­sion to re­print here twelve of these tales, which as “Epis­odes from The Book of Won­der” were prin­ted in his columns.

ab­bre­vi­ated to suit the ex­i­gen­cies of the Paper and are here given in full.
I again of­fer my thanks to the Ed­itor of The Saturda