Chapter I: Front Matter

COPPERTOP

_Affectionately inscribed to my little friend
CELIA HALL
Without whom there would have been no
COPPERTOP_

COPPERTOP

The Queer Adventures of a Quaint Child

BY
HAROLD GAZE

AUTHOR OF
“The Mite Merry Stories,” “War in Faerieland,”
“Omar in Faerieland,” etc.

ILLUSTRATIONS BY THE AUTHOR

Melbourne Publishing Company
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CONTENTS.

Chapter Page

I. In the Old Four-Posted Bed 9

II. Off on an Adventure 19

III. They Make an Enemy 21

IV. In the Middle of a Thunderstorm 25

V. They Meet Their First Bear 30

VI. Under the Snow 36

VII. The Castle of the South Wind 40

VIII. Towards the Great West Land 46

IX. In the Tropics 57

X. Shipwrecked 62

XI. Waomba-Mother of the West Land 65

XII. Lost in a Forest 69

XIII. In the Arms of the Mist Maidens 77

XIV. Inside a Crocodile 82

XV. The Clerk of the Weather Lays a Trap 90

XVI. Discovered by the East Wind 97

XVII. The Strangest Ride that Ever Was 105

XVIII. The East Wind and the White Elephant 110

XIX. The East Wind in a Rage 115

XX. In the Den of the Spinster Spider 119

XXI. Coppertop and the Old Mother-Bird 128

XXII. Tibbs and Kiddiwee to the Rescue 133

XXIII. The December Day is Almost Theirs 140

XXIV. Biddy-be-sure, the Irish Witch 145

XXV. Coppertop Kisses the Blarney Stone 148

ILLUSTRATIONS.

=Colored.=

Coppertop Frontispiece

“Come along,” cried Tibbs To face page 16

The Albatross and the Sea-Maidens ” ” 48

“Look again, little one,” said Waomba ” ” 80

Tibbs and Kiddiwee escape from the Crocodile ” ” 96

“Foolish ones,” said Amon Ra ” ” 112

Miss Smiler sits on the White Elephant ” ” 128

=Black and White.=

Page

“If a Book of Travels can’t move about a bit, who can?” 16

The Clerk of the Weather 22

“Oh, my hair is on fire!” cried Coppertop 26

The South Wind 43

Skipper Blubberkins 53

The Four-posted Bed at Sea 60

The Chief of the Monkey Tribe 73

The East Wind 101

“Don’t talk of husbands to me,” said the Elderly Spinster
Spider 125

The North Wind 142

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