In further acknowledgment of the mistakes and perils of the voyage, two of the company sing:

Now, by the sun and moon and Mars,
And all the minor run of stars,
I'll not repeat that sort of game
While I possess the Brownie name.

Nor shall I sail upon the main
In any kind of craft again
That doesn't have a water-tight
Compartment that is working right.

They find themselves in a land full of enchantments. "Even the moon," as Prince Florimel notes, mocks them, showing a Brownie face. They propose a serenade to her, and the king begins:

The sun has a most inconsiderate way
Of shining when he isn't needed, at day.
To Brownies, now, really, that doesn't seem

his devotions to the captive d seeks to commend himself to h these terms:

I'm not a fav'rite in society.
In vice I've reached the thirty-seco
If you should want a sample
Of a horrible example

For a Y. M. C. A. meeting, come
I don't go to Sunday-school,
Or mind anybody's rule;

I never put a penny in the contribu I cheat when I play croquet And use words I shouldn't say In everything I oughtn't to do I to date.

In order to gain admission to King Stanislaus and others put into a cunning disguise, the which is sufficiently indicated b they sing :

Unless you were low in the sky.

Meanwhile they come upon an afflicting sight. They see Dragonfel, within his enchanted castle, paying

A DEMON ACROBAT.

INSPECTOR CLUBBEM, DAME DRUSILDA, AND THE DUDE. DRAWN BY W. A. C. PAPE.

Ve vas a habby Charmin band,

Und on der shtreed each tay ve shtand,

Und dry our pest der blease der ear

Mit musig beoples liges der hear.

Ach himmel! You shoult hear us blay

Dot song, "Ta-ra-ra-poom-te-ay!"

"Der Bicdure Durned Dowards der Vall," "Shweed Violeds "-ve know dem all.

The deception, however, fails. A combat follows, in which the Brownies triumph; but Dragonfel invokes the assistance of Vulcan, and there comes an earthquake that brings down the palace walls. Meanwhile a volcano has gone into erup

tion, and in the natural excitement of the moment Dragon fel contrives to escape with Queen Titania to his mines. The Brownies are left in the path of the swift descending lava. Prince Florimel appeals to Euphrosyne to match her might against that of Vulcan, and the course of the lava is diverted, and the Brownies are saved. Then they renew the search for Queen Titania. Day dawns, and Prince Florimel urges his companions to still continue their search, though the mystic powers of the Brownies vanish with the night. Dragonfel, knowing of this weakness in them, entraps them and sets them to work in the mines. There they toil and slave; but, true to the Brownie instinct, they make merry