The Chinese Wonder Book. Norman Hinsdale Pitman

at all, but only images of cloth and clay.

      No wonder then Honeysuckle liked to see Punch and Judy if the Son of Heaven himself had been deceived by their comical antics into thinking them real people of flesh and blood.

      But we must hurry on with our story, or some of our readers will be asking, “But where is Dr. Dog? Are you never coming to the hero of this tale?” One day when Honeysuckle was sitting inside a shady pavilion that overlooked a tiny fish-pond, she was suddenly seized with a violent attack of colic. Frantic with pain, she told a servant to summon her father, and then without further ado, she fell over in a faint upon the ground.