Round-about Rambles in Lands of Fact and Fancy eBook

Frank Richard Stockton

Table of Contents
Section	Page

Start of eBook	1
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS	1
PREFACE	2
WINTER IN THE WOODS	3
TRICKS OF LIGHT.	4
SAVING THE TOLL.	7
THE REAL KING OF BEASTS.	8
THE FRENCH SOLDIER-BOY	12
A LIVELY WAY TO RING A BELL.	13
DOWN IN THE EARTH.	14
THE LION.	17
BOB’S HIDING-PLACE.	19
THE CONTINENTAL SOLDIER.	23
A JUDGE OF MUSIC.	23
THE SENSITIVE PLANT.	24
SIR MARMADUKE.	25
THE GIRAFFE.	26
UP IN THE AIR.	27
THE HORSE OF ARABIA.	32
INDIAN PUDDINGS: PUMPKIN PIES.	33
LIVING IN SMOKE.	34
THE CANNON OF THE PALAIS ROYAL.	35
WATERS, DEEP AND SHALLOW.	36
HANS, THE HERB-GATHERER.	43
SOME CUNNING INSECTS.	45
A FIRST SIGHT OF THE SEA.	47
THE LARGEST CHURCH IN THE WORLD.	49
THE SOFT PLACE.	50
A FEW FEATHERED FRIENDS.	52
IN A WELL.	56
A VEGETABLE GAS MANUFACTORY.	58
A FEW WORDS ABOUT BEARS.	59
AN OLD COUNTRY-HOUSE.	61
FAR-AWAY FORESTS.	62
BUILDING SHIPS.	64
THE ORANG-OUTANG.	66
LITTLE BRIDGET’S BATH.	67
SOME NOVEL FISHING.	69
EAGLES AND LITTLE GIRLS.	71
CLIMBING MOUNTAINS.	72
ANDREW’S PLAN.	73
THE WILD ASS.	75
ANCIENT RIDING.	76
BEAUTIFUL BUGS.	77
A BATTLE ON STILTS	78
DRAWING THE LONG BOW.	79
AN ANCIENT THEATRE.	80
BIRD CHAT.	81
MUMMIES.	84
TAME SNAKES.	85
GYMNASTICS.	86
BUYING “THE MIRROR.”	89
BIG GAME.	92
THE BOOTBLACK’S DOG.	96
GOING AFTER THE COWS.	97
THE REFLECTIVE STAG.	98
WHEN WE MUST NOT BELIEVE OUR EYES.	99
A CITY UNDER THE GROUND.	102
THE COACHMAN.	108
GEYSERS, AND HOW THEY WORK.	109
A GIANT PUFF-BALL.	111
TICKLED BY A STRAW.	111
THE LIGHT IN THE CASTLE.	111
THE OAK TREE.	113
THE SEA-SIDE.	114
THE SICK PIKE.	116
TWO KINDS OF BLOSSOMS.	117
ABOUT GLASS.	118
CARL.	124
SCHOOL’S OUT!	128
NEST-BUILDERS.	129
THE BOOMERANG.	134
THE END.	135
THE STORY OF SIR LAUNCELOT AND HIS COMPANIONS	136
MY DARK COMPANIONS	142

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