Chapter I: Front Matter

THE ADVENTURES OF
DIGGELDY DAN

THE ADVENTURES OF DIGGELDY DAN

BY
EDWIN P. NORWOOD

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY
A. CONWAY PEYTON

BOSTON
LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY
1922

_Copyright, 1922_,
BY LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY.

_All rights reserved_

Published September, 1922

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

TO
THE HOSFORDS
OF
MEADOW HOUSE

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These tales were first told for the Children’s Page of _The Christian Science Monitor_, and the author takes this means of acknowledging his appreciation of the arrangement by which he is privileged to republish them.

CONTENTS

_Chapter_ _Page_

I In Which Dan Meets the Pretty Lady with the Blue-Blue Eyes 3

II In Which Dan Hears the Message from Too-Bo-Tan 12

III In Which Dan Releases the Animals of Spangleland 18

IV In Which the Animals Elect Officers 25

V In Which Giraffe Gives a Chalk-Talk and the Animals Learn
a New Game 31

VI In Which the Animals Send a Message to the Pretty Lady 37

VII In Which the Animals Meet with a Disappointment and a
Surprise and a Story is Begun 43

VIII In Which the Pretty Lady Continues Her Story 53

IX In Which the Pretty Lady Concludes Her Story 62

X In Which the Pretty Lady Tells of Mysteries and Spangles 70

XI In Which the Animals Play at Circus and Dan Promises a
Story 79

XII In Which Dan Answers the Beckoning Trees 88

XIII In Which Dan Learns of Peanuts and Things 98

XIV In Which Dan Parts with Old Friends and Prepares to Claim
a Reward 108

XV In Which Dan and Gray Ears Arrive at Their Goal 118

XVI In Which Dan Joins the Very Biggest Circus 130

XVII In Which the Animals Entertain an Unexpected Caller 139

XVIII In Which the Pretty Lady Carries a Passenger into the Wide
Wide World 149

XIX In Which Little Black Bear Spends a Night in the Forest 159

XX In Which Little Black Bear Meets Shagg, the Carpenter 169

XXI In Which Little Black Bear Adds Still More to His Story 181

XXII In Which Dan Meets Beader, of the Jumping Dragoons 192

XXIII In Which Dan Spends a Night in the Valley of Tick Tock 204

XXIV In Which Dan is Presented with the Key to the Valley 216

XXV In Which Dan Hears the Clock Strike One 227

XXVI We Say Goodbye to Diggeldy Dan 239

ILLUSTRATIONS

“‘Who—may—you—be?’ exclaimed the four in surprise” _Frontispiece_

In a very twinkling, there appeared the most beautiful
circus lady one ever laid eyes upon _Page_ 10

Away they all went, down through the line „ 35

“Then he picked up his left foot and began to use its
toes for counters” „ 59

And so this strangest of all circuses began „ 83

“Something came from out the air, and swept me square
off my toes” „ 95

Little Black Bear gladly did his tricks over and over
again „ 185

At the boom of “One” the mice fairly rained into the
Great Room „ 235

THE ADVENTURES OF
DIGGELDY DAN