Here the Toy added some words, which Mangogul understood not, and then with surprising rapidity fell to sketching out a crowd of heroic, comic, burlesque, and tragicomic adventures: and it was almost out of breath, when it continued in these terms. “You see I have some memory. But I am like all others; I have retained but the smallest part of what I have been entrusted with. Be satisfied therefore with what I have related to you, I can recollect no more at present.”

“ ’Tis pretty well,” said Mangogul within himself; but still he urged afresh.

“Lud, how teasing you are,” resumed the Toy: “As if one had nothing better to do than to prate. Come then, since it must be so, let us prate on: perhaps when I have told all, I shall be permitted to do something else.