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    The Magic Soap Bubble
    The Magic Soap Bubble
    The Magic Soap Bubble
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    The Magic Soap Bubble

    By E. I. Jones, P. H. Webb and David Cory

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 15, 2013
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      The Magic Soap Bubble - E. I. Jones

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Magic Soap Bubble, by David Cory

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

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      re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included

      with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net

      Title: The Magic Soap Bubble

      Author: David Cory

      Illustrator: E. I. Jones

      P. H. Webb

      Release Date: October 17, 2008 [EBook #26944]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE MAGIC SOAP BUBBLE ***

      Produced by Chris Curnow, Joseph Cooper, Emmy and the

      Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

      "Come with me for a visit

      To Fairyland, dear Ned.

      I'll show you many won'drous things,"

      The tiny Gnomeman said.

      I've lost a magic golden ring,

      The pretty Bluebird sighed.

      Don't worry, laughed the kind old fish,

      I have it safe inside.

      I'll hurry, Mother, Jimmy cried,

      As down the road he ran,

      When in a jiffy up there jumped

      A little Rabbitman.

      Come, Mr. Elephant, cried Shem,

      "Don't fear the dreadful Shark.

      The Circus Folk are calling us

      To leave the big Noah's Ark."

      LITTLE JOURNEYS TO

      HAPPYLAND

      BY

      DAVID CORY

      Author of

      Little Jack Rabbit Series

      (Trademark Registered)

      NED ATE THE MAGIC CAKE

      The Magic Soap Bubble                      Frontispiece

      LITTLE JOURNEYS TO HAPPY LAND

      (Trademark Registered)

      ———————————

      THE MAGIC

      SOAP BUBBLE

      BY

      DAVID CORY

      AUTHOR OF

      The Little Jack Rabbit Books

      PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED

      BY

      E.I. Jones and P.H. Webb

      GROSSET & DUNLAP

      PUBLISHERS NEW YORK

      ———————————

      Made in the United States of America

      Copyright, 1922, by

      GROSSET & DUNLAP.

      CONTENTS

      THE MAGIC SOAP PIPE

      The King of the Gnomes prepares the Magic Pipe for making the Magic Soap Bubble.

      THE MAGIC SOAP PIPE

      Ned had been reading a very interesting book about fairies and goblins, and how these real queer little folk inhabit dense forests and lofty mountain caves and lead a wonderful life apart from the homes and cities of men.

      The book was very large and heavy, and the afternoon was very warm, and the big armchair in which he was curled up was so comfortable that by and by he let the book slip to one side.

      He had just closed his eyes for a moment to rest them, when he was startled by a little squeaky voice at his elbow.

      He opened his eyes with a start and saw a Gnome standing on the window-sill just in front of him. Yes, there was no mistake about it, it was a Gnome. For had not Ned a moment before seen his picture in the big book he had been reading? Indeed, it almost seemed as if the picture itself had stepped out of the page from between the covers, so exactly a duplicate did the little man appear.

      Hello, Ned! said the little squeaky voice again. I say, hello! You ought to know me well enough by this time to answer, since you've been reading about me for the last hour.

      Hello, yourself! replied Ned, laughing in spite of himself, and rubbing his eyes again to make sure that it was not a picture from the book.

      Can't you see a fellow is sleepy after reading so long a time? I didn't think you were coming out of the book to speak to me, you know.

      Neither did I, retorted the Gnome, with a funny wink. I came from the forest to invite you to take a little journey with me through Gnomeland. I am the King of the Gnomes, and my subjects have told me how interested you are in reading about us, so I have come to take you for a trip through our kingdom. I know you will love to see all the wonderful things you have been reading about. Will you come?

      Indeed, I will, said Ned.

      Then follow me, replied the Gnome.

      Ned jumped through the window after the little fellow, who ran swiftly down the walk and across the fields to the forest beyond.

      As they neared the brook that ran through the meadow, the Gnome paused. Taking from his pocket a clay pipe, he stooped over and filled it with water.

      Did you ever blow soap bubbles? he asked, taking a piece of soap from another pocket and rubbing it carefully around the inside of the pipe-bowl.

      Yes, replied Ned, lots of times.

      Well, you wait and see what sort of a bubble I'll blow, replied the Gnome.

      It was a bubble! But the strangest part of it all was that Ned found himself inside of it with his companion.

      How did we get inside, or how did the bubble get around us? asked Ned, but before his question was answered away went the bubble up in the air, across the meadow, above the little brook, yes, over the roof of his own house, higher and higher, until

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