The City Curious

The Project Gutenberg eBook, The City Curious, byJean de Bosschère, Translated by F. Tennyson Jesse,Illustrated by Jean de BosschèreThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and withalmost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away orre-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License includedwith this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.orgTitle: The City CuriousAuthor: Jean de BosschèreRelease Date: May 17, 2010 [eBook #32406]Language: EnglishCharacter set encoding: ISO-8859-1***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE CITY CURIOUS*** E-text prepared by Suzanne Shell, Josephine Paolucci,and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team(http://www.pgdp.net)from page images generously made available byInternet Archive/American Libraries(http://www.archive.org/details/americana) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive/American Libraries. SeeNote:http://www.archive.org/details/citycurious00boscrich THE CITY CURIOUSFRITILLA AND THE RED FLYING-FISH FRITILLA AND THE REDFLYING-FISHF r o n t i s p i e c eTHE CITY CURIOUSBYJEAN de BOSSCHÈREILLUSTRATED BY THEAUTHOR AND RETOLDIN ENGLISH BYF. TENNYSON JESSENEW YORK: DODD, MEAD AND COMPANYLONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN1920Printed in Great BritainCONTENTSPAGECHAPTER ISmaly and his wife Redy set forth in search of three little girls:They are bewitched so that their noses turn into beaks: Smalyeats the latch of a door ...