By W. G. CHAPMAN
Copyright, 1908
By THOMPSON & THOMAS
CONTENTS.
| [CHAPTER I.] | |
|---|---|
| The Bad Boy Wants to Be an Orphan—The Bad Boy Goes to an Orphan Asylum—The Government Gives the Bad Boy’s Pa an Appointment to Travel Over the World and Get Information About Airships, Dirigible Balloons and Everything to Help Our Government Know What Other Governments are Doing in Case of War | [15] |
| [CHAPTER II.] | |
| No Encouragement for Inventive Genius in Orphan Home—The Boy Uses His New Invention, a Patent Clothes Wringer, in Milking | [28] |
| [CHAPTER III.] | |
| The Boy Escapes from Orphan Asylum—The Boy and His Chum Had Red Letter Days—The Boy is Adopted by New Friends | [42] |
| [CHAPTER IV.] | |
| A Bad Railroad Wreck—The Boy Contrasts Their Ride to One in a Parlor Car—The Lawyer is the Greatest Man on Earth—The Boy Settles His Claim for $20 | [55] |
| [CHAPTER V.] | |
| The Bad Boy Leaves St. Louis in a Balloon—The Boy Makes a Trip to San Francisco and Joins Evans’ Fleet—The Police Arrest Boy and Tie Up Balloon | [67] |
| [CHAPTER VI.] | |
| The Balloon Lands in Delaware—The Boy Visits the Battleships—They Scour the Boy With a Piece of Brick and Some Laundry Soap—The Boy Investigates the Mechanism of the Battleships—The Boy Goes With the Ships as a Mascot | [78] |
| [CHAPTER VII.] | |
| A Storm Comes from the Coast of Cuba—Everyone Goes to Sleep on the Ship Except the Watchman and Pilot—The Bad Boy is Put in the Dungeon—The Captain Says to Throw the Boy Overboard to Feed the Sharks | [91] |
| [CHAPTER VIII.] | |
| The Boy Dresses Up in His Sunday Clothes and Tells the Captain He is Ready to Die—The Crew Throw a Steer Overboard to Feed a School of Sharks—The Boy Produces His New Electric Battery—The Bad Boy Makes a Trip to France to Meet His Pa | [104] |
| [CHAPTER IX.] | |
| The Bad Boy Arrives in France—The Boy’s Pa is Suspected of Being an Anarchist—The Boy Finds Pa Seated at a Large Table Bragging About America—He Told Them the Men in America Were All Millionaires and Unmarried | [131] |
| [CHAPTER X.] | |
| Pa Had the Hardest Time of His Life in Paris—Pa Drinks Some Goat Milk Which Gives Him Ptomaine Poison in His Inside Works—Pa Attends the Airship Club in the Country—Pa Draws on American Government for $10,000 | [145] |
| [CHAPTER XI.] | |
| The Boy and His Pa Leave France and Go to Germany, Where They Buy an Airship—They Get the Airship Safely Landed—Pa and the Boy With the Airship Start for South Africa—Pa Shows the Men What Power He Has Over the Animal Kingdom | [157] |
| [CHAPTER XII.] | |
| All Kinds of Climates in South Africa—Pa Hires Men to Capture Wild Animals—The Boy and His Pa Capture Some Tigers and a Big Lion—They Have a Narrow Escape from a Rhinoceros | [170] |
| [CHAPTER XIII.] | |
| Pa Was a Hero After Capturing Two Tigers and a Lion—Pa Had an Old Negro With Sixty Wives Working for Him—Pa Makes His Escape in Safety—Pa Goes to Catch Hippopotamusses | [181] |
| [CHAPTER XIV.] | |
| Pa Was Blackmailed and Scared Out of Lots of Money—Pa Teaching the Natives to Speak English—Pa Said the Natives Acted Like Human Beings—Pa Buys Some Animals in the Jungle | [194] |
| [CHAPTER XV.] | |
| The Idea of Airships is All Right in Theory, but They are Never Going to Be a Reliable Success—Pa Drowns the Lions Out With Gas—The Bad Boy and His Pa Capture a Couple of Lions—Pa Moves Camp to Hunt Gorillas | [207] |
| [CHAPTER XVI.] | |
| The Boy’s Pa Shows Bravery in the Jungles in Africa—Four Gorillas Chase Pa—The Boy and His Pa Don’t Sleep Much at Night—The Boy Discovers a Marsh Full of Wild Buffaloes | [220] |
| [CHAPTER XVII.] | |
| The Boy’s Experience With an African Buffalo—The Boy’s Pa Shoots Roman Candles to Scare the Buffaloes—The Boy’s Pa Tames the Wild Animals | [234] |
| [CHAPTER XVIII.] | |
| The Boy and His Pa Start for the Coast in an Airship—Pa Saluted the Crowd as We Passed Over Them—The Airship Lands Amid a Savage Tribe—The King of the Tribe Escorts Pa and the Boy to the Palace | [246] |
| [CHAPTER XIX.] | |
| The Boy’s Pa Becomes King over the Negroes—Pa Shows the Natives How to Dig Wells—Pa Teaches the Natives to become Soldiers—The Boy Uses a Dozen Nigger Chasers and Some Roman Candles—The Boy, His Pa and the Natives Assist at the 4th of July Celebration | [258] |