Bikey the Skicycle and Other Tales of Jimmieboy

alls of which were lined with books, and as he entered he saw that to each book was attached a small wire, an

ueried, as his eye re

e to take the books off the shelf. All you have to do is to fasten the wire connected with the book you want to read with the battery, turn on the current,

but he was soon stopped, for some book or other

s Tollywillikens passed through the wood alone, and on approaching the e

ook ceased

il, when he and the Princess were playing in the King's gardens, and how she had mourned for him many years, never knowing what had become of him? H

, or anything at all about Pixyweevil, but did remark to the brook that if the Princess should ever water the roots of that

d to the Princess, 'Follow me, and we'll find Pixyweevil,' and h

very oak and cried like a baby," continued Jimmieboy,

e shuddered as her tears fell to the ground, and how she thought it was th

d at her thinking such a

ery root of the tree was wet with her tears, a

her Pixyweevil ever became King? My book says, 'And so they were married, and were happy ever afterwa

you?" said the Imp, with a laugh-po

mmieboy. "Did he ever

and live happy ever afterwards, for Kings don

"My idea of a King was that he was a man who could eat between meals, and go to the circ

to, but they can't have the nice things you have. It would never do for a King to like ginger-snaps and cookies, because the people would murmur and say, 'Here-he is not of royal birth, for even we, the common people, eat ginger-snaps and cookies between meals; were he the true King he would call f

xyweevil become?"

red puppy-dogs, and snow-shovels, and other things like that, instead of trying to get the whole moon into a four-line poem, or to describe some myster

yweevil's poems," said Jimmieboy. "I l

button to press that will enable you to hear them. They're most of 'em

bject. "For that reason I have forgotten where everything is. However, we can hunt for what we want until we find it. P

ittle fellows listened very intentl

," said the Imp. "I

one of disappointment. "Perhaps the librar

re. "If the library is out of order it's going to be a very serious matter getting it all right again, because we have all the books in the world he

ole room rang with

OULDN'T SAY ANY

anything," he cried. "What

," said Jimmi

ith nothing in it.

e bell rang, and the Imp ha

room. "I've got to send a message for somebody. I'll turn on one of the p

current, and directing Jimmieboy's attention to the sheet

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