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Updated: May 12, 2025
I could see that her eyes were filled with tears. The tree fell, and I went flying through the air to certain death! "When I came to, I found myself clasped in Lola-Akwa's arms. 'Where am I? I asked. 'Look' she said. I did, and learned the wonderful truth. "The Great Tree had fallen upon the Great Panjandrum and his fifteen conspirators and killed them all."
"Ho! ho! ho!" he laughed, dancing about on the pedestal, "haven't I tricked them beautifully? Turned to stone! The Dodo, now fortunately extinct! Ha! ha! ha! he! he! what a lark! They'll find I'm not so extinct as they think." And, jumping down, he made a grimace in the direction in which the Little Panjandrum and suite had vanished.
On the top of the umbrella were a number of curious signs, of which the children could not possibly imagine the meaning. "Obbly bobblee wallee bobbel ob," said the Ambassador, bowing three times, and dragging the Dodo's head down with him each time. "Flop!" replied the Little Panjandrum, and the two musicians fell on their faces. "Um sopelee gumbos galapaloo glab," remarked the Ambassador.
'It's one of the laws of the land, he said, 'that whenever one suffers anything at the hands of the Grand Panjandrum, one must grin and bear it; it's a most terrible offence not to do so. "'I don't care, said the Court Physician recklessly, 'I shan't grin, and there's an end of it. "'Why are you sentenced to death? I asked.
An elaborate pretence, a deliberate policy of make-believe, ever since those days invested Imperial Edicts with a majesty which they have never really possessed, the effacement of the sovereign during the Nineteenth Century contributing to the legend that there existed in the capital a Grand and Fearful Panjandrum for whom no miracle was too great and to whom people and officials owed trembling obedience.
The gentleman under review used to be a tremendous anti-Popery speaker, and more than once thought well of the Reformation perorations of Henry Vincent; but he has toned down much in this respect, like Panjandrum the Grand, under whose feathers he originally nestled.
And the Dodo struck a rigid attitude, and remained in that position, totally disregarding the questions with which the children plied him. The State Umbrella, which the Dodo had been carrying, fell to the ground with a crash, and so startled the Little Panjandrum that he jumped to his feet and nervously tried to run away.
It so elated him that he sprang to his feet and with his staff of office broke the heads of his Chief Admonisher of the Inimical and his Second Assistant Audible Sycophant. Then he said: "I think I comprehend. Having learned all their customs and business methods he returned to his own country and laid before the Panjandrum a comprehensive scheme of commercial reform.
"Ploff!" said the Little Panjandrum, and the black slave at the back jigged the State Umbrella up and down several times very violently. "What a funny language," whispered Marjorie. "I wonder what they are talking about?" "Semlifee dobbel bingle bingle boff," cried the Ambassador, lifting up one leg, while the Dodo painfully followed his example.
"For one thing, we shall not have to hunt for that old Dodo," argued Dick, "because even the Grand Panjandrum himself, whoever he may be, could not expect us to go far away while we remain as little as this, and so we are not in such great danger of being er er thingummybobbed you know what the Ambassador said we should be, if we didn't find the wretched thing."
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