The King of GeeWhiz Author:Emerson Hough, Wilbur Dick Nesbit General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1906 Original Publisher: Bobbs-Merrill Subjects: Drama / General Drama / American Drama / Anthologies Drama / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Juvenile Fiction / General Literary Criticism / Children's Literature Literary Criticism / Drama Performing Arts / Th... more »eater / General Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER IV THE SEARCH IN THE CUPBOARD Now, presently, a very strange thing happened. The Twins, Lulu and Zuzu, stood at the edge of the table grieving very much that the Banjo was broken. Each put out a hand, Lulu touching the neck of the instrument, where, in her opinion, the music was, and Zuzu the round part or head, where he thought that the music was situated. To their great surprise, as they did this the Banjo again began to play, the two parts joining themselves together as good as new. So long as they held it in this way, it played the most beautiful andwonderful music. Stranger still, after it had finished playing, it began also to talk. " I am the Enchanted Banjo of the King of Gee-Whiz," it said in a small, distinct, and quite unmistakable voice. "I only take myself apart to rest myself; but if you put me together again, of course I feel obliged to play for you, as that is only common politeness on my part." "Is that indeed the truth, sir?" asked the Widow Pickle of the little dark man. " It is," said he; " and I myself am the Court Musician, as I have said. It is my duty to furnish music for the King every day at half-past two in the afternoon, and I find a self-playing instrument a great convenience. Now, I am sorry to disturb you, but, by the way, it is nearly time for us to be returning." "Excuse me, my chi...« less