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Updated: May 12, 2025
"It's all your fault, too," he declared, ungratefully disregarding the fact that Dick had just rescued him from a watery grave. "What do you want with me, anyhow?" "Why, you see," hastily explained Dick, "the Ambassador to the Little Panjandrum sent us in search of you, and if we don't take you back in less than a week we're to be er er something with an awfully long name "
Belonging to hard-working, dancing families, they talked a great deal in their high-pitched, twanging voices about their friends and relations who danced at the Varolium, Panjandrum, and other music halls, friends of whom, since she herself aspired to higher things, Pollyooly had but a poor opinion.
"The Court Physician was greatly interested, and after I had read to him the directions in the book, he suggested that he should take me to the Palace at once and into the presence of the Grand Panjandrum. "'For no doubt the operation must be performed by yourself, since you alone possess the fairy power, said he.
One's invitation must convey by inference that one was either brilliant, beautiful, or admirable, if not important. Nigel Anstruthers had never appeared at what the uninvited were wont, with derisive smiles, to call The Great Panjandrum Function which was an ironic designation not employed by such persons as received cards bidding them to the festivity.
"In the name of the little Panjandrum," he shouted, in a loud voice, and immediately all the gnomes bowed respectfully almost down to the ground. "His Serene Importance and Most Magnificent Greatness is grievously distressed." The gnomes all brought forth little pocket-handkerchiefs, and began to cry. "The Dodo presented to His Worshipful Gorgeousness by the Grand Panjandrum himself has escaped!"
"It was something with a very long name," stammered Dick; "I can't quite remember what." "Look here," said the little man, bending forward excitedly, "that story won't do for me. I am the Ambassador Extraordinary of his Magnificence the little Panjandrum, and you tell me that you have seen the Dodo; that is enough. Now then! Where is it?
If I wasn't so scared I'd wish he couldn't stop it, for it will be a way-up Barbarian scrap, the tongs and the kettle, a bully panjandrum. It gets mighty dull in the desert when you're not moving. But "it makes to think," as the French say. Since I came out here I've had several real centre thoughts, sort of main principles-key-thoughts, that's it.
Ah, here comes His Importance," he continued, as the sound of a drum was heard in the distance. The children all eagerness to see the Little Panjandrum, stood in a line by the side of the pathway, while the Ambassador, keeping a firm hold on the Dodo, remained by their side. The sound of the drum drew nearer, and the children could distinguish another sound mingling with it.
"If I do bang away and miss him," grumbled Trimble Rogers, "he's apt to pepper us afore I can reload." "But you forswore shootin' him," chided Bill Saxby, between strokes of the paddle. "Show me a great sea-chest crammed wi' treasure and I'd put a hole through the Grand High Panjandrum hisself," replied the ancient one. "Aye, Bill, there be more'n one way to skin an eel.
And the Dodo, quite overcome with fear and anxiety, fell upon his knees and sobbed violently. Meanwhile the state balloon belonging to His Importance the Little Panjandrum rapidly drew near. "Can you see who's in it?" asked the Dodo, anxiously, when the balloon had drawn a little nearer. "Two gentlemen," declared Marjorie, whose eyesight was very keen.
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