The Master Key / An Electrical Fairy Tale Founded Upon the Mysteries of Electricity

The cover image was created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain.
Rob was surrounded by a group of natives
Copyright 1901 The Bowen-Merrill Company
PRESS OF BRAUNWORTH & CO. BOOKBINDERS AND PRINTERS BROOKLYN, N. Y.
To my son
Robert Stanton Baum
CONTENTS
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These things are quite improbable, to be sure; but are they impossible?
Our big world rolls over as smoothly as it did centuries ago, without a squeak to show it needs oiling after all these years of revolution. But times change because men change, and because civilization, like John Brown's soul, goes ever marching on.
The impossibilities of yesterday become the accepted facts of to-day.
Here is a fairy tale founded upon the wonders of electricity and written for children of this generation. Yet when my readers shall have become men and women my story may not seem to their children like a fairy tale at all.