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    The Zankiwank and The Bletherwitch An Original Fantastic Fairy Extravaganza
    The Zankiwank and The Bletherwitch An Original Fantastic Fairy Extravaganza
    The Zankiwank and The Bletherwitch An Original Fantastic Fairy Extravaganza
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    The Zankiwank and The Bletherwitch An Original Fantastic Fairy Extravaganza

    By S. J. Adair Fitzgerald and Arthur Rackham

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      The Zankiwank and The Bletherwitch An Original Fantastic Fairy Extravaganza - S. J. Adair Fitzgerald

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      S. J. Adair Fitzgerald

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      Title: The Zankiwank and The Bletherwitch

      An Original Fantastic Fairy Extravaganza

      Author: S. J. Adair Fitzgerald

      Illustrator: Arthur Rackham

      Release Date: August 17, 2011 [EBook #37111]

      Language: English

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      The Zankiwank

      and

      The Bletherwitch

      An Original Fantastic Fairy Extravaganza

      "Imagination is always the ruling and divine power, and the rest of the man is only the instrument which it sounds, or the tablet on which it writes."

      John Ruskin.

      The ZANKIWANK & The BLETHERWITCH

      BY S.J. ADAIR FITZGERALD

      WITH PICTURES BY ARTHUR RACKHAM

      LONDON J.M. DENT & CO.

      ALDINE HOUSE E.C. 1896

      All Rights Reserved

      To

      MY BLANCHE

      I AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBE

      THIS LITTLE BOOK

      CONTENTS

      LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

      Part I

      A Trip to Fable Land

      By the Queen-Moon's mystic light,

      By the hush of holy night,

      By the woodland deep and green,

      By the starlight's silver sheen,

      By the zephyr's whispered spell,

      Brooding Powers Invisible,

      Faerie Court and Elfin Throng,

      Unto whom the groves belong,

      And by Laws of ancient date,

      Found in Scrolls of Faerie Fate,

      Stream and fount are dedicate.

      Whereso'er your feet to-day

      Far from haunts of men may stray,

      We adjure you stay no more

      Exiles on an alien shore,

      But with spells of magic birth

      Once again make glad the earth.

      Philip Dayre.

      A Trip to Fable Land

      Well, said the Zankiwank as he swallowed another jam tart, I think we had better start on our travels at once.

      They were all standing under the clock at Charing Cross Station when the station was closed and everybody else had departed, except the train which the Zankiwank had himself chartered. It was all so odd and strange, and the gathering was so very motley, that if it had been to-morrow morning instead of last night, Willie and Maude would certainly have said they had both been dreaming. But, of course, they were not dreaming because they were wide-awake and dressed. Besides, they remembered Charing Cross Station quite well, having started therefrom with their father and mother only last summer when they went to the sea-side for their holidays—and what jolly times they had on the sands! So Maude said promptly, It is not Night-mare or Dreams or Anything. We don't know what it is, but we must not go to sleep, Willie, in case anything should happen.

      Willie replied that he did not want to go to sleep any more. I believe it's a show, he added, and somebody's run away with us. How lovely! I'm glad we are lost. Let us go and ask that tall gentleman, who looks like the parlour-tongs in a bathing-suit, to give us some more buns. For, being a boy, he could always eat buns, or an abundance of them, only I hope you won't tell the nursery governess I told you.

      It was the Zankiwank, who was doing some conjuring tricks for the benefit of the Jackarandajam and Mr Swinglebinks, to whom Willie referred. The Zankiwank was certainly a very curious person to look at. He had very long legs, very long arms, and a very small body, a long neck and a head like a peacock. He was not wearing a bathing suit as Willie imagined, because there were tails to his jacket, hanging down almost to his heels. He wore a sash round his waist, and his clothes were all speckled as though he had been peppered with the colours out of a very large kaleidoscope. The Jackarandajam was also rather tall and thin, but dressed in the very height of fashion, with a flower in his coat and a cigarette in his mouth, which he never smoked because he never lit it. He was believed by all the others—you shall know who all the others were presently—to know more things than the Man-in-the-Moon, because he nearly always said something that nobody else ever thought of. And the Man-in-the-Moon knows more things than the Old Woman of Mars. You have naturally heard all about Mars—at least, if you have not heard all about her, you all have

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