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THE BOOK OF DRAGONS]
The Book of DRAGONS
E. Nesbit
With illustrations by H. R. Millar
Decorations by H. Granville Fell
DOVER PUBLICATIONS, INC. Mineola, New York
Contents
PAGE
I. The Book of Beasts 1
II. Uncle James, or The Purple Stranger 19
III. The Deliverers of Their Country 39
IV. The Ice Dragon, or Do as You Are Told 57
V. The Island of the Nine Whirlpools 79
VI. The Dragon Tamers 99
VII. The Fiery Dragon, or The Heart of Stone and the Heart of Gold 119
VIII. Kind Little Edmund, or The Caves and the Cockatrice 139
List of Illustrations
The Book of Dragons _frontispiece_
The Book of Beasts PAGE 1
"The dragon flew away across the garden." PAGE 9
"The Manticora took refuge in the General Post Office." PAGE 14
Uncle James, or The Purple Stranger PAGE 19
"By-and-by he began to wander." PAGE 30
"The dragon ran after her." PAGE 36
The Deliverers of Their Country PAGE 39
"The largest elephant in the zoo was carried off." PAGE 44
"He rose into the air, rattling like a third-class carriage." PAGE 51
The Ice Dragon, or Do as You Are Told PAGE 57
"Sure enough, it was a dragon." PAGE 69
"The dwarfs seized the children." PAGE 73
The Island of the Nine Whirlpools PAGE 79
"The lone tower on the Island of the Nine Whirlpools." PAGE 89
"Little children play around him and over him." PAGE 97
The Dragon Tamers PAGE 99
"The dragon's purring pleased the baby." PAGE 107
"He brought something in his mouth--it was a bag of gold." PAGE 117
The Fiery Dragon, or The Heart of Stone and the Heart of Gold PAGE 119
"The junior secretary cried out, 'Look at the bottle!'" PAGE 130
"They saw a cloud of steam." PAGE 136
Kind Little Edmund, or The Caves and the Cockatrice PAGE 139
"Creeping across the plain." PAGE 148
"That smells good, eh?" PAGE 153
_To Rosamund, chief among those for whom these tales are told, The Book of Dragons is dedicated in the confident hope that she, one of these days, will dedicate a book of her very own making to the one who now bids eight dreadful dragons crouch in all humbleness at those little brown feet._
The Book of DRAGONS
THE BOOK OF BEASTS]