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TRAVELS AND ADVENTURES OF LITTLE BARON TRUMP AND HIS WONDERFUL DOG BULGER

by

INGERSOLL LOCKWOOD

Illustrated by George Wharton Edwards

Boston 1890 Lee and Shepard Publishers 10 Milk Street Next “Old South Meeting House” New York Charles T. Dillingham 718 and 720 Broadway

Copyright, 1889, By Ingersoll Lockwood.

TO
MASTER EDWARD GOLD JOHNES
ONE OF
LITTLE BARON TRUMP’S
EARLIEST ADMIRERS
THIS BOOK IS GRATEFULLY INSCRIBED.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

PAGE.

Brief Account of the Little Baron’s Famous Ancestor, the “Armless
Knight,” 7

CHAPTER II.

Something about the Elder Baron, the Little Baron’s Father—How
the Elder Baron made the Ascent of the Mountains of the
Moon—Wonderful Escape of the Elder Baron and Baroness from the
Impenetrable Fog, 12

CHAPTER III.

Birth of Bulger and the Little Baron in the Land of the Melodious
Sneezers—How the Little Baron was Rescued from Death by His
Faithful Bulger—The Elder Baron’s Return to Europe—His Trouble
with the Little Baron’s Tutors, 19

CHAPTER IV.

How the Elder Baron and Baroness, the Household Servants, and the
Horses and Cattle, of the Baronial Estates, all lost Flesh in
consequence of the Elder Baron’s Worrying about the Investment
of the Little Baron’s Fortune—How the Little Baron Solved the
Problem—How the Elder Baron Objected to the Little Baron’s
setting out on His Travels—Steps taken by the Little Baron to
Overcome this Opposition, 30

CHAPTER V.

The Little Baron’s First Voyage to Southern Seas, with a Brief
Account of how He Triumphed over the Terrors of Port No Man’s
Port and Rescued his Vessel from the Terrible Calm—His and
Bulger’s Wonderful Experience with that Strange Folk, the Wind
Eaters—Their Attempt to Slay Him; and, Bulger’s timely Arrival, 39

CHAPTER VI.

The Elder Baron’s Gift of a Copy of a Roman Newspaper—The Strange
Story it contained—How the Little Baron, upon reading it, was
moved to set sail in Search of the Sculptors’ Isle—His Sojourn
in the Land of the Slow Movers—Its Effect upon Little Baron—His
narrow escape from becoming a Slow Mover Himself, 103

CHAPTER VII.

Journey of Bulger and the Little Baron to Central Asia—Benè-agâ,
the Blind Guide—Their Passage through the Great Gloomy Forest
and their Perilous Flight down the Rocky Steps of
Bōga-Drappa—Adventures among the Umi-Lobas or Man-Hoppers, in
the Dominion of King Gâ-roo, 136

CHAPTER VIII.

Visit of the Little Baron to Neptune’s Caldron—How a Fearful
Storm drove them on the Coast of China—His and Bulger’s
Adventures in the Kingdom of the Sun, including an account of
Bulger’s Arrest and Trial—Although defended by the Little
Baron, he is sentenced to Death, 210

CHAPTER IX.

How the Little Baron again left Home contrary to Bulger’s
Advice—Some Account of the Awful Storm which cast them on the
Island of Gô-gû-lâh—Adventures among the Roundbodies who
inhabited it—Marriage of the Little Baron to Princess Rōlâ-Bōlâ
Utterly Incredible Manner in which the Little Baron and Bulger
made their Escape from the Domain of King Bô-gôô-gôô, 260

TRAVELS AND ADVENTURES

OF

LITTLE BARON TRUMP

AND

HIS WONDERFUL DOG BULGER.

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