Contents
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- [I Encounter the Old Gentleman] [3]
- [The Sporting Tour of Mr. Munchausen] [13]
- [Three Months in a Balloon] [26]
- [Some Hunting Stories for Children] [37]
- [The Story of Jang] [49]
- [He Tells the Twins of Fire-Works] [61]
- [Saved by a Magic Lantern] [73]
- [An Adventure in the Desert] [85]
- [Decoration Day in the Cannibal Islands] [95]
- [Mr. Munchausen’s Adventure with a Shark] [105]
- [The Baron as a Runner] [116]
- [Mr. Munchausen Meets His Match] [129]
- [Wriggletto] [143]
- [The Poetic June-Bug, Together with Some Remarks on the Gillyhooly Bird] [155]
- [A Lucky Stroke] [168]
List of Illustrations
- [Portrait of Mr. Munchausen] Frontispiece
Facing Page
- [“There was the whale, drawn by magnetic influence to the side of The Lyre”] [20]
- [“As their bullets got to their highest point and began to drop back, I reached out and caught them”] [34]
- [“I got nearer and nearer my haven of safety, the bellowing beasts snorting with rage as they followed”] [46]
- [“Jang buzzed over and sat on his back, putting his sting where it would do the most good”] [56]
- [“Out of what appeared to be a clear sky came the most extraordinary rain storm you ever saw”] [68]
- [“‘I am your slave,’ he replied to my greeting, kneeling before me, ‘I yield all to you’”] [82]
- [“I reached the giraffe, raised myself to his back, crawled along his neck and dropped fainting into the tree”] [94]
- [“They were celebrating Decoration Day, strewing flowers on the graves of departed missionaries”] [102]
- [“I laughed in the poor disappointed thing’s face, and with a howl of despair he rushed back into the sea”] [114]
- [“This brought my speed down ten minutes to the mile which made it safe for me to run into a haystack”] [126]
- [“At the first whoop Mr. Bear jumped ten feet and fell over backward on the floor”] [140]
- [“He used to wind his tail about a fan and he’d wave it to and fro by the hour”] [152]
- [“Most singular of all was the fact that, consciously or unconsciously, the insect had butted out a verse”] [164]
- [“Again I swung my red-flagged brassey in front of the angry creature’s face, and what I had hoped for followed”] [170]