Round-about Rambles in Lands of Fact and Fancy

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Title: Round-about Rambles in Lands of Fact and Fancy
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ROUND-ABOUT RAMBLES
In Lands of
FACT AND FANCY

BY
FRANK R STOCKTON

NEW EDITION
NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
1910

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1872,
BY SCRIBNER. ARMSTRONG & CO.,
In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

CONTENTS
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 ARABIAN HORSE
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
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 WE MUST NOT BELIEVE OUR EYES
A CITY UNDER THE GROUND
THE COACHMAN
GEYSERS, AND HOW THEY WORK
A GIANT PUFF-BALL
TICKLED BY A STRAW
THE LIGHT IN THE CASTLE
THE OAK TREE
THE SEA-SIDE
THE SICK PIKE
TWO KINDS OF BLOSSOMS
ABOUT GLASS
CARL
SCHOOL'S OUT
NEST-BUILDERS
THE BOOMERANG

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Frontispiece.
The Woodcutter
The Minstrel on the Wall
Tricks in a Church
The Dance of Demons
Nostradamus
The Lion's Head
The Theatrical Ghost
The Toll-bridge
A Royal Procession
An Elephant after Him
The Dog's Protector
An Elephant Nurse
Saving the Artillery-man
The Gallant Elephant
The French Soldier-Boy
On a Bell
Fishes found in the Mammoth Cave
The Bottomless Pit
The Lion's Home
The Uncaged Lion
A Lion's Dinner
A Terrible Companion
Off to the Kitchen
Blind Man's Buff
The Story-Teller
In the Cellar
Handing round the Apples
The Drummer of 1776
The Continental Soldier
The Donkey in the Parlor
Sir Marmaduke
The Giraffe
Above the Clouds
The Flying Man
The Parachute--shut
The Parachute--open
Le Flesseles
Bagnolet's Balloon
Coming down Roughly
A Balloon with Sails and Rudders
The Minerva
Safe Ballooning
Driven out to Sea
The Arabian Horse
In the Cornfield
A Big Mosquito
Exactly Noon
The Spring
The Brook
The Mill
The Cascade
The Great River
Falls of Gavarni
The Falls of Zambesi
Niagara
Fishing with a Net
Fishing with a Spear
Sponge-Fishing
A Pearl Oyster
Divers
Rough Water
The Iceberg
The Storm
The Shipwreck
Water-Spouts
A Bit of Cable
Hans, the Herb-Gatherer
Patsey
A Spider at Home
The Ant's Arch
The Cock-chafer's Wing
The Spider's Bridge
The Moth and the Bees
Learned Fleas
The Pacific
St. Peter's at Rome
Interior of St. Peter's
The Five Young Deer
Waking Up
Familiar Friends
The Pigeon
The Dove
The Swan
The Goose that Led
The Goose that Followed
The Sensible Duck
The Goldfinch
The Magpie
The Owl
Morning Singers
In a Well
The Fraxinella
A Company of Bears
The Black Bear
The Grizzly Bear
The White Bear
The Tame Bear
An old Country-House
Ancient Builders
The Pine Forest
Tree Ferns
Tropical Forest
The Giant Trees
The Great Eastern
The Orang-Outang
Bridget and the Fairies
Flat-Fish
Turbots
The Sea-Horse
The Cuttle-Fish
The Polypier
Tunnies
The Sword-Fish
The Shark
The Child and the Eagle
Climbing the Mountain
Andrew and Jenny
Wild Asses
The Palanquin
The Chariot
Transformation of Beetles
A Battle on Stilts
Drawing the Long Bow
The Colosseum
The Cormorants
The Bittern
The Pelican
The Hoopoe
The Falcon
The Mummy
The Stand
The Coffin
The Outside Coffin
The Sarcophagus
The Tame Snake
The Novel Team
Youngsters Fighting
Throwing the Hammer
Throwing the Stone
Thomas Topham
Venetian Acrobats
The Tight-Rope
The See-Saw
The Wild Boar
The Musk-Ox and the Sailor
Hunting the Brown Bear
A Brave Hippopotamus
A Rhinocerus Turning the Table
A Tiger-Hunt
A Fight with a Gorilla
The Boot-black's Dog
Going after the Cows
The Reflective Stag
The Mirage
Fata Morgana
The Spectre of the Brocken
A Narrow Street in Pompeii
A Cleared Street in Pompeii
The Atrium in the House of Pansa
Ornaments from Pompeii
A Pompeiian Bakery
The Amphitheatre of Pompeii
The Coachman
The Grand Geyser
The Artificial Geyser
A Giant Puff-ball
Tickled by a Straw
The Will-o'-the-Wisp
The Oak Tree
The Sea-Side
The Vessels on Shore
The Sick Pike
The Blossoms
Ice-Blossoms
Ice-Flowers
Ancient Bead
Venetian Bottle
German Drinking-Glass
Glass Jug
Making Bottles
Venetian Goblet
Modern Goblets
The Queen's Mirror
Bohemian Goblet
French Flagon
The Portland Vase
The Strange Lady
Carl and the Duke
The Dominie
Wrens' Nests
Orioles' Nest
Owl's Nests
Flamingoes' Nests
The little Grebe's Nest
The Ostrich-Nest
The Stork's Nest
A Fish's Nest
Throwing the Boomerang
The Way the Boomerang Goes

PREFACE
Come along, boys and girls! We are off on our rambles. But please do not ask me where we are going. It would delay us very much if I should postpone our start until I had drawn you a map of the route, with all the stopping-places set down.
We have far to go, and a great many things to see, and it may be that some of you will be very tired before we get through.
If so, I shall be sorry; but it will be a comfort to think that none of us need go any farther than we choose.
There will be considerable variety in our rambles. We shall walk about familiar places, and we shall explore streets and houses that have been buried for centuries. We shall go down deep into the earth, and we shall float in a balloon, high up into the air. We shall see many beasts of the