Formatted Contents Note: The hopping halfpenny.--The house of ghosts / Humbert Wolfe.--Humblepuppy / Joan Aiken.--How the lizard fought the leopard / E.R. Eratne.--Peter's mermaid / Charlotte Hough.--Prot and Krot / Agnes Szudek.--The gorgon's head / Charles Kingsley.--The dutch cheese / Walter de la Mare.--The monster of Raasay.--The little brown bees of Ballyvourney / Eleanore M. Jewett.--Flannan Isle / Wilfrid Gibson.--The little wee tyke / Ruth Tongue.--Sohrab and Rustem.--The dog / Donald Bisset.--Golden hair ; A box on the ear / Ruth Manning-Sanders.--Little Holger and his flute / Johan Fabricius.--hist whist / e.e. cummings.--The Duchess of Houndsditch / Barbara Sleigh.--The Princess and the pea / Hans Andersen.--The simpleton.--The adventures of Isobel / Ogden Nash.--The fog horn / Ray Bradbury