Little Muck presents the magic figs to the King
Standard Glass Slide (3¼"). 9 of 12: adopting a disguise, Little Muck brings a basket of magic figs to the king's cook.
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Little Muck escapes with the magic slippers
Standard Glass Slide (3¼"). 12 of 12: the king begs Little Muck to lift the spell, but Little Muck refuses and escapes through a window, taking the magic slippers and cane with him.
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But now commences another trial of endurance
Standard Glass Slide (3¼"). 8 of 12: the tiger begins to run away, dragging the tub and the hunters with it.
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Short, if we could only manage to tie a knot in the tail we should be safe
Standard Glass Slide (3¼"). 9 of 12: the hunters succeed in tying a knot in the tiger's tail.
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Little Short in the exuberance of his joy dances with glee
Standard Glass Slide (3¼"). 11 of 12: the hunters watch as the tiger and tub run off into the distance.
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The following summer they went out again
Standard Glass Slide (3¼"). 12 of 12: the hunters, armed with guns this time, take aim at the tiger in the tub. There are four tiger cubs in little barrels of their own. This has been suggested (Evans 2006) to be a joke at the expense of Darwin's Theory of Evolution.
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Puss presents the rabbits to the king
Standard Glass Slide (3¼"). 4 of 12: Puss presents the rabbits he has caught to the king, saying that they are a gift from the fictional Marquis of Carabas.
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Puss arrives at a castle owned by an ogre
Standard Glass Slide (3¼"). 8 of 12: Puss arrives on the drawbridge of a castle that belongs to an ogre.
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The ogre transforms into a lion and a mouse
Standard Glass Slide (3¼"). 9 of 12: the ogre transforms into a lion to frighten Puss, but Puss tricks him into turning into a mouse. Puss catches the mouse and kills it. The two sheets of glass are only loosely connected.
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The miller's son marries the Princess
Standard Glass Slide (3¼"). 11 of 12: the miller's son, now the Marquis of Carabas, marries the king's daughter. Sheets of glass only loosely held together.
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