And there are pictures in all the numbers, of birds and ant-eaters and antelopes, and I don't know what.

The Mono and the Quata live in the West Indies, I think.

You see, I think the A's are rather good numbers; very likely, for there's America, and Asia, and Africa, and Arabia, and Abyssinia, and there'll be Australia before we come to the B's.

Oh, Isaac! I do wish I could go round the world!" I sighed, and the bee-master sighed also, with a profundity that made his chair creak, well-seasoned as it was.

Then he said, "But I'll say this, Master Jack, next to going to such places the reading about 'em must come.