Chapter I: Front Matter

PECK’S BAD BOY IN AN AIRSHIP

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Peck’s Bad Boy
in an Airship

By Hon. Geo. W. Peck

Author of Peck’s Bad Boy, Peck’s Bad Boy Abroad, Peck’s Bad Boy
With the Circus, Peck’s Bad Boy With the Cowboys, Etc.

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Humorous and Interesting

A story relating the adventures of Peck’s Bad Boy and His
Pa who are sent to Europe to investigate airships with an
idea of using them in the United States Navy. Tells of their
adventures in Europe also in South Africa where the airship
is used in hunting wild animals.

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Illustrated by Charles Lederer
The Celebrated Illustrator and Cartoonist

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CHICAGO
STANTON and VAN VLIET CO.
PUBLISHERS

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Copyright, 1908
By W. G. CHAPMAN

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Copyright, 1908
By THOMPSON & THOMAS

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CONTENTS.

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CHAPTER I.

The Bad Boy Wants to Be an Orphan—The Bad Boy Goes to an Orphan
Asylum—The Government Gives the Bad Boy’s Pa an Appointment to
Travel Over the World and Get Information About Airships,
Dirigible Balloons and Everything to Help Our Government Know
What Other Governments are Doing in Case of War 15

CHAPTER II.

No Encouragement for Inventive Genius in Orphan Home—The Boy
Uses His New Invention, a Patent Clothes Wringer, in Milking 28

CHAPTER III.

The Boy Escapes from Orphan Asylum—The Boy and His Chum Had Red
Letter Days—The Boy is Adopted by New Friends 42

CHAPTER IV.

A Bad Railroad Wreck—The Boy Contrasts Their Ride to One in a
Parlor Car—The Lawyer is the Greatest Man on Earth—The Boy
Settles His Claim for $20 55

CHAPTER V.

The Bad Boy Leaves St. Louis in a Balloon—The Boy Makes a Trip
to San Francisco and Joins Evans’ Fleet—The Police Arrest Boy
and Tie Up Balloon 67

CHAPTER VI.

The Balloon Lands in Delaware—The Boy Visits the
Battleships—They Scour the Boy With a Piece of Brick and Some
Laundry Soap—The Boy Investigates the Mechanism of the
Battleships—The Boy Goes With the Ships as a Mascot 78

CHAPTER VII.

A Storm Comes from the Coast of Cuba—Everyone Goes to Sleep on
the Ship Except the Watchman and Pilot—The Bad Boy is Put in
the Dungeon—The Captain Says to Throw the Boy Overboard to
Feed the Sharks 91

CHAPTER VIII.

The Boy Dresses Up in His Sunday Clothes and Tells the Captain
He is Ready to Die—The Crew Throw a Steer Overboard to Feed a
School of Sharks—The Boy Produces His New Electric Battery—The
Bad Boy Makes a Trip to France to Meet His Pa 104

CHAPTER IX.

The Bad Boy Arrives in France—The Boy’s Pa is Suspected of Being
an Anarchist—The Boy Finds Pa Seated at a Large Table Bragging
About America—He Told Them the Men in America Were All
Millionaires and Unmarried 131

CHAPTER X.

Pa Had the Hardest Time of His Life in Paris—Pa Drinks Some Goat
Milk Which Gives Him Ptomaine Poison in His Inside Works—Pa
Attends the Airship Club in the Country—Pa Draws on American
Government for $10,000 145

CHAPTER XI.

The Boy and His Pa Leave France and Go to Germany, Where They
Buy an Airship—They Get the Airship Safely Landed—Pa and the
Boy With the Airship Start for South Africa—Pa Shows the Men
What Power He Has Over the Animal Kingdom 157

CHAPTER XII.

All Kinds of Climates in South Africa—Pa Hires Men to Capture
Wild Animals—The Boy and His Pa Capture Some Tigers and a Big
Lion—They Have a Narrow Escape from a Rhinoceros 170

CHAPTER XIII.

Pa Was a Hero After Capturing Two Tigers and a Lion—Pa Had an
Old Negro With Sixty Wives Working for Him—Pa Makes His Escape
in Safety—Pa Goes to Catch Hippopotamusses 181

CHAPTER XIV.

Pa Was Blackmailed and Scared Out of Lots of Money—Pa Teaching
the Natives to Speak English—Pa Said the Natives Acted Like
Human Beings—Pa Buys Some Animals in the Jungle 194

CHAPTER XV.

The Idea of Airships is All Right in Theory, but They are Never
Going to Be a Reliable Success—Pa Drowns the Lions Out With
Gas—The Bad Boy and His Pa Capture a Couple of Lions—Pa Moves
Camp to Hunt Gorillas 207

CHAPTER XVI.

The Boy’s Pa Shows Bravery in the Jungles in Africa—Four
Gorillas Chase Pa—The Boy and His Pa Don’t Sleep Much at
Night—The Boy Discovers a Marsh Full of Wild Buffaloes 220

CHAPTER XVII.

The Boy’s Experience With an African Buffalo—The Boy’s Pa Shoots
Roman Candles to Scare the Buffaloes—The Boy’s Pa Tames the
Wild Animals 234

CHAPTER XVIII.

The Boy and His Pa Start for the Coast in an Airship—Pa Saluted
the Crowd as We Passed Over Them—The Airship Lands Amid a
Savage Tribe—The King of the Tribe Escorts Pa and the Boy to
the Palace 246