Chapter I: Front Matter

To ALICE

WHO LISTENED TO MY FIRST FAIRY STORIES,
THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED

THE TRUE STORY

OF

HUMPTY DUMPTY

How he was rescued by Three Mortal Children
in Make Believe Land

By ANNA ALICE CHAPIN

With Illustrations and Decorations
BY ETHEL FRANKLIN BETTS

NEW YORK
DODD, MEAD & COMPANY
1905

_Copyright, 1905_
+By Dodd, Mead & Company+

Published October, 1905

THE UNIVERSITY PRESS · CAMBRIDGE, U. S. A.

CONTENTS

+Chapter+ +Page+

I +The Way It All Began+ 1

II +Make-Believing+ 7

III +At the Owls’ Inn+ 19

IV +Mother Goose’s Cottage+ 31

V +Through the Wonderful Wood+ 43

VI +How Bab Rescued the Wooden Cow+ 55

VII +Meg’s Journey to Fairyland+ 67

VIII +The Court of the Fairy Queen+ 81

IX +Under the Sea of Glass+ 93

X +A Fish Tea-Party+ 105

XI +Into the City of the Wicked King+ 117

XII +Princess Star+ 129

XIII “+Harness the Reindeer!+” 137

XIV +Danger!+ 151

XV +By the City Wall+ 163

XVI +Behind the Reindeer+ 175

XVII +Mother Goose Once More+ 187

XVIII +At Last+ 199

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

PAGE

They all three stood in a row before her [Page 34] _Frontispiece_

The Owl-Innkeeper’s story [Page 23] 38

Bab and the Sand Man [Page 51] 84

“She was surely the Queen of the Fairy Folk” [Page 89] 120

“‘I don’t think I like you,’ said the Sea Kobold; ‘you may go’” [Page 98] 146

They were all three back on the nursery hearth rug [Page 206] 192

_Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall;
All the King’s horses and all the King’s men
Couldn’t put Humpty Dumpty together again._

I

_The Way It All Began_

Humpty Dumpty