with
little space in between them.
On page 308, the text tells us the Soldier with the Green Whiskers and
Guardian of the Gates are playing marbles at the city gate. But the picture
on shows the Soldier dancing with a girl in the garden.
All those contradictions make me think Neill revised his thinking as he
went along, but never went back to revise his manuscript (which would have
been easier than revising his artwork).
The picture of Nine and the clock on page 135 apparently illustrates a
scene earlier or later since those characters are far away from their usual
posts in that chapter.
Looking for that drawing's original spot made me note that the
chapter-opening pages aren't exactly regular. The last has unusually little
space for art and an extra line, while others drop a line to avoidwith assuming the Bell-snickle yelled out his own name is
that at that moment his motivation is not to scare but to remain a mystery,
and naming himself would dispel a lot of that mystery.
<<>On page 192, Nine says he never saw the Nota-bells through the Wizard's
>teletable. But he actually saw them back on page 106.
At the time, though, he thought it was Jenny who was lost. I suppose he
never thought to re-evaluate the situation in light of what Jenny told him
about NOT being lost.>>
Nine was indeed looking for Jenny, but the teletable showed him the
Puckerts before Jenny entered the picture, and it undeniably did show them.
A bigger mystery might be why the teletable had never before shown the
Nota-bells or the several other lost tribes. Then again, the teletable
never seems