Tudor Jenks

“ You promised me you'd behave if I took you—"
"So I did," the King admitted, and he begged pardon very handsomely, for the Queen was very severe with him on certain subjects.
"It's lucky for you that the Enchanter was right," said the Green Goblin; "and now I'll give you an easy one. You can spell commutation."
"There's no such word," said the King.
"It's the name of a railway ticket," said the Green Goblin, very politely.
"I know nothing of railway tickets," the King replied. "I travel by special train. The Chancellor arranges all that for me. No doubt he can spell it. Try him. ”

“ First came the Giant, then came the Dwarf and the Enchanter, the King, the Chancellor, the Woodcutter's Son, the Wizard, the Knight, the Princess. After her was the Squire, then the Queen, the Pirate, the Genie, the Schoolmaster, the Teacher of Dancing, the Bandit, and last came the Sultan and the old Witch.
Before the line stood the Green Goblin, holding in his paw the list of hard words, ready to give them out as soon as the signal was given. Then an elf blew three blasts on a trumpet-flower, and the match began.
"The first word," announced the Green Goblin, "is for you, Mr. Giant. ”

“ And, owing to misfortunes and bad spells of weather, I have had to teach dancing for a living, and, I blush to confess it—I am a very poor teacher of dancing. I will tell you the experiences of my life. ”