Round-about Rambles in Lands of Fact and Fancy. Frank Richard Stockton

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4057664600479

Table of Contents

       PREFACE

       WINTER IN THE WOODS

       TRICKS OF LIGHT.

       SAVING THE TOLL.

       THE REAL KING OF BEASTS.

       THE FRENCH SOLDIER-BOY

       A LIVELY WAY TO RING A BELL.

       DOWN IN THE EARTH.

       THE LION.

       BOB'S HIDING-PLACE.

       THE CONTINENTAL SOLDIER.

       A JUDGE OF MUSIC.

       THE SENSITIVE PLANT.

       SIR MARMADUKE.

       THE GIRAFFE.

       UP IN THE AIR.

       THE HORSE OF ARABIA.

       INDIAN PUDDINGS: PUMPKIN PIES.

       LIVING IN SMOKE.

       THE CANNON OF THE PALAIS ROYAL.

       WATERS, DEEP AND SHALLOW.

       HANS, THE HERB-GATHERER.

       SOME CUNNING INSECTS.

       A FIRST SIGHT OF THE SEA.

       THE LARGEST CHURCH IN THE WORLD.

       THE SOFT PLACE.

       A FEW FEATHERED FRIENDS.

       IN A WELL.

       A VEGETABLE GAS MANUFACTORY.

       A FEW WORDS ABOUT BEARS.

       AN OLD COUNTRY-HOUSE.

       FAR-AWAY FORESTS.

       BUILDING SHIPS.

       THE ORANG-OUTANG.

       LITTLE BRIDGET'S BATH.

       SOME NOVEL FISHING.

       EAGLES AND LITTLE GIRLS.

       CLIMBING MOUNTAINS.

       ANDREW'S PLAN.

       THE WILD ASS.

       ANCIENT RIDING.

       BEAUTIFUL BUGS.

       A BATTLE ON STILTS.

       DRAWING THE LONG BOW.

       AN ANCIENT THEATRE.

       BIRD CHAT.

       MUMMIES.

       TAME SNAKES.

       GYMNASTICS.

       BUYING "THE MIRROR."

       BIG GAME.

       THE BOOTBLACK'S DOG.

       GOING AFTER THE COWS.

       THE REFLECTIVE STAG.

       WHEN