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Title: The Great Red Frog

Author: Mosnar Yendis (AKA Sidney Ransom)

Release Date: October 19, 2005 [EBook #16905]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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[Transcriber's Note: Mosnar Yendis is an anagram of Sidney Ransom,
the author. Best known for advertising posters, this children's book is
a rare example of his work outside that genre. As of this writing, known
copies include two in the Library of Congress offsite storage, one in
the British Library, one in the National Library of Scotland, a small
handful of others in the wild, and the one used to create this version.
The NLS copy was used as a reference to verify the sequence and presence
of all pages.]

[Illustration: Front cover.]

THE
Great Red Frog

TOLD AND PICTURED
BY
M. Yendis

METHUEN & CO.
36 ESSEX STREET W.C.
LONDON

1903

Many years ago, and many miles away, there was a little Prince who was
exactly like the Lord Chamberlain's son, and sometimes even the artful
old Chamberlain himself could not tell one from the other.

[Illustration]

When the Prince became King of Noware, they were still alike as two
peas, and one day, when they were playing in the garden, a Magic Bush
suddenly grew up behind the King. At the same moment the Chamberlain's
Son suddenly lost his temper,

[Illustration]

And pushed his royal play-fellow into the Magic Bush. The little
King was immediately changed into a strange red Frog, which ran
away croaking fearfully.

[Illustration]

The wicked Chamberlain seemed quite pleased when his son told him what
had happened,

[Illustration]

And, pla