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So soon as we got into the street, we met the Turtle and thePelican, walking arm-in-arm, and each smoking a cigarette.—Page 151.
Wallypugland.
ADVENTURES IN
WALLYPUG-LAND
By G. E. FARROW
AUTHOR OF “THE WALLYPUG OF WHY,”
“THE WALLYPUG INLONDON,” ETC.
WITH FIFTY-SIX ILLUSTRATIONS BY ALAN WRIGHT
A. L. BURT COMPANY, PUBLISHERS,
52-58 Duane Street, New York.
DEDICATED
TO
LIONEL
ADVENTURES IN WALLYPUG-LAND.
PREFACE.
My dear little Friends,
I have again to thank you for the many kindand delightful letters which I have received fromall parts of the world, and I cannot tell you howhappy I am to find that I have succeeded so wellin pleasing you with my stories.
What am I to say to the little boy who wrote, andbegged “that, if the Wallypug came to stay withme again, would I please invite him too?” or tothe other dear little fellow who came to me withtears in his eyes, to tell me that some superiorgrown-up person had informed him that “there[10]never was a Wallypug, and it was all just a packof nonsense”; that “Girlie never went to Whyat all, and that in fact there was no such place inexistence”?
I can only regretfully admit that, sooner or lateras we grow up to be men and women, there arebound to be many fond illusions which are oneby one ruthlessly dispelled, and that many of thedreams and thoughts which, in our younger days,we cherish most dearly, the hard, matter-of-factworld will always persist in describing as “a packof nonsense.” However, for many of us fortunately,this tiresome time has not yet arrived,and for the present we will refuse to give up ourpoor dear Wallypug—for whom I declare I haveas great an affection and regard, as the mostenthusiastic of my young readers.
You will see that in the following story I havedescribed my own experiences during a r