Chapter 13
HOW I SET TO WORK TO UNDO A WRONG THAT HAD BEEN DONE IN THE KINGDOM OF THE MIKKAMENKIES, AND HOW BULGER HELPED. — QUEEN GALAXA’S CONFESSION. — I AM CREATED PRIME MINISTER AS LONG AS SHE LIVES. — WHAT TOOK PLACE IN THE THRONE ROOM. — MY SPEECH TO THE MEN OF GOGGLE LAND AFTER WHICH I SHOW THEM SOMETHING WORTH SEEING. — HOW I WAS PULLED IN TWO DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS AND WHAT CAME OF IT.
BULGER AND I TURN OUR BACKS ON THE FAIR DOMAIN OF QUEEN CRYSTALLINA. — NATURE’S WONDERFUL SPEAKING-TUBE. — CRYSTALLINA’S ATTEMPT TO TURN US BACK. — HOW I KEPT BULGER FROM YIELDING. — SOME INCIDENTS OF OUR JOURNEY ALONG THE MARBLE HIGHWAY, AND HOW WE CAME TO THE GLORIOUS GATEWAY OF SOLID SILVER.
THE GUARDS AT THE SILVER GATEWAY. — WHAT THEY WERE LIKE. — OUR RECEPTION BY THEM. — I MAKE A WONDERFUL DISCOVERY. — THE WORLD’S FIRST TELEPHONE. — BULGER AND I SUCCEED IN MAKING FRIENDS WITH THESE STRANGERS. — A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE SOODOPSIES, THAT IS, MAKE BELIEVE EYES, OR THE FORMIFOLK, THAT IS, ANT PEOPLE. — HOW A BLIND MAN MAY READ YOUR WRITING.
IDEAS OF THE FORMIFOLK CONCERNING OUR UPPER WORLD. — THE DANCING SPECTRE. — THEIR EFFORTS TO LAY HOLD OF HIM. — MY SOLEMN PROMISE THAT HE SHOULD BEHAVE HIMSELF. — WE SET OUT FOR THE CITY OF THE MAKE-BELIEVE EYES. — MY AMAZEMENT AT THE MAGNIFICENCE OF THE APPROACHES TO IT. — WE REACH THE GREAT BRIDGE OF SILVER, AND I GET MY FIRST GLANCE OF THE CITY OF CANDELABRA. — BRIEF ACCOUNT OF THE WONDERS SPREAD OUT BEFORE MY EYES. — EXCITEMENT OCCASIONED BY OUR ARRIVAL. — OUR SILVER BED-CHAMBER.
IN WHICH YOU READ, DEAR FRIENDS, SOMETHING ABOUT A LIVE ALARM CLOCK AND A SOODOPSY BATHER AND RUBBER. — OUR FIRST BREAKFAST IN THE CITY OF SILVER. — A NEW WAY TO CATCH FISH WITHOUT HURTING THEIR FEELINGS. — HOW THE STREETS AND HOUSES WERE NUMBERED, AND WHERE THE SIGNBOARDS WERE. — A VERY ORIGINAL LIBRARY IN WHICH BOOKS NEVER GET DOG-EARED. — HOW VELVET SOLES ENJOYED HER FAVORITE POETS. — I AM PRESENTED TO THE LEARNED BARREL BROW, WHO PROCEEDS TO GIVE ME HIS VIEWS OF THE UPPER WORLD. — THEY ENTERTAINED ME AMAZINGLY AND MAY INTEREST YOU.
EARLY HISTORY OF THE SOODOPSIES AS RELATED BY BARREL BROW. — HOW THEY WERE DRIVEN TO TAKE REFUGE IN THE UNDER WORLD, AND HOW THEY CAME UPON THE MARBLE HIGHWAY. — THEIR DISCOVERY OF NATURAL GAS WHICH YIELDS THEM LIGHT AND WARMTH, AND OF NATURE’S MAGNIFICENT TREASURE HOUSE. — HOW THEY REPLACED THEIR TATTERED GARMENTS AND BEGAN TO BUILD THE CITY OF SILVER. — THE STRANGE MISFORTUNES THAT CAME UPON THEM, AND HOW THEY ROSE SUPERIOR TO THEM, TERRIBLE AS THEY WERE.
BEGINS WITH SOMETHING ABOUT THE LITTLE SOODOPSIES, BUT BRANCHES OFF ON ANOTHER SUBJECT; TO WIT: — THE SILENT SONG OF SINGING FINGERS, THE FAIR MAID OF THE CITY OF SILVER. — BARREL BROW IS KIND ENOUGH TO ENLIGHTEN ME ON A CERTAIN POINT, AND HE TAKES OCCASION TO PAY BULGER A VERY HIGH COMPLIMENT, WHICH, OF COURSE, HE DESERVED.
THIS IS A LONG AND A SAD CHAPTER. — IT TELLS HOW DEAR, GENTLE, POUTING-LIP WAS LOST, AND HOW THE SOODOPSIES GRIEVED FOR HIM AND WHOM THEY SUSPECTED. — BULGER GIVES A STRIKING PROOF OF HIS WONDERFUL INTELLIGENCE WHICH ENABLES ME TO CONVINCE THE SOODOPSIES THAT MY “DANCING SPECTRE” DID NOT CAUSE POUTING-LIP’S DEATH. — THE TRUE TALE OF HIS TERRIBLE FATE. — WHAT FOLLOWS MY DISCOVERY. — HOW A BEAUTIFUL BOAT IS BUILT FOR ME BY THE GRATEFUL SOODOPSIES, AND HOW BULGER AND I BID ADIEU TO THE LAND OF THE MAKE-BELIEVE EYES.
HOW WE WERE LIGHTED ON OUR WAY DOWN THE DARK AND SILENT RIVER. — SUDDEN AND FIERCE ONSLAUGHT UPON OUR BEAUTIFUL BOAT OF SHELL. — A FIGHT FOR LIFE AGAINST TERRIBLE ODDS, AND HOW BULGER STOOD BY ME THROUGH IT ALL. — COLD AIR AND LUMPS OF ICE. — OUR ENTRY INTO THE CAVERN WHENCE THEY CAME. — THE BOAT OF SHELL COMES TO THE END OF ITS VOYAGE. — SUNLIGHT IN THE WORLD WITHIN A WORLD, AND ALL ABOUT THE WONDERFUL WINDOW THROUGH WHICH IT POURED, AND THE MYSTERIOUS LAND IT LIGHTED.
THE PALACE OF ICE IN THE GOLDEN SUNLIGHT, AND WHAT I IMAGINED IT MIGHT CONTAIN. — HOW WE WERE HALTED BY A COUPLE OF QUAINTLY CLAD SENTINELS. — THE KOLTYKWERPS. — HIS FRIGID MAJESTY KING GELIDUS. — MORE ABOUT THE ICE PALACE, TOGETHER WITH A DESCRIPTION OF THE THRONE-ROOM. — OUR RECEPTION BY THE KING AND HIS DAUGHTER SCHNEEBOULE. — BRIEF MENTION OF BULLIBRAIN, OR LORD HOT HEAD.
LORD HOT HEAD AGAIN, AND THIS TIME A FULLER ACCOUNT OF HIM. — HIS WONDROUS TALES CONCERNING THE KOLTYKWERPS: WHERE THEY CAME FROM, WHO THEY WERE, AND HOW THEY MANAGED TO LIVE IN THIS WORLD OF ETERNAL FROST. — THE MANY QUESTIONS I PUT TO HIM, AND HIS ANSWERS IN FULL.
SOME FEW THINGS CONCERNING THE DEAR LITTLE PRINCESS SCHNEEBOULE. — HOW SHE AND I BECAME FAST FRIENDS, AND HOW ONE DAY SHE CONDUCTED BULGER AND ME INTO HER FAVORITE GROTTO TO SEE THE LITTLE MAN WITH THE FROZEN SMILE. — SOMETHING ABOUT HIM. — WHAT CAME OF MY HAVING LOOKED UPON HIM QUITE FULLY DESCRIBED.
A SLEEPLESS NIGHT FOR BULGER AND ME AND WHAT FOLLOWED IT. — INTERVIEW WITH KING GELIDUS. — MY REQUEST AND HIS REPLY. — WHAT ALL TOOK PLACE WHEN I LEARNED THAT THE KING AND HIS COUNCILLORS HAD DECIDED NOT TO GRANT MY REQUEST. — STRANGE TUMULT AMONG THE KOLTYKWERPS, AND HOW HIS FRIGID MAJESTY STILLED IT, AND SOME OTHER THINGS.
HOW THE QUARRY MEN OF KING GELIDUS CLEFT ASUNDER THE CRYSTAL PRISON OF THE LITTLE MAN WITH THE FROZEN SMILE. — MY BITTER DISAPPOINTMENT, AND HOW I BORE IT. — WONDERFUL HAPPENINGS OF THE NIGHT THAT FOLLOWED. — BULGER AGAIN PROVES HIMSELF TO BE AN ANIMAL OF EXTRAORDINARY SAGACITY.
EXCITEMENT OVER FUFFCOOJAH. — I CARRY HIM TO THE COURT OF KING GELIDUS. — HIS INSTANT AFFECTION FOR PRINCESS SCHNEEBOULE. — I AM ACCUSED OF
