Adventure stories
Beppo
This family lived among the branches of a giant tree, in the middle of the forest, and paid fifteen plums’ rent every year to an old overbearing gorilla, who had taken it into his head to be a proprietor.
Chapters
1. CHAPTER I.
This family lived among the branches of a giant tree, in the middle of the forest, and paid fifteen plums’ rent every year to an old overbearing gorilla, who had taken it into h...
2. CHAPTER II.You must know that just outside of the forest where Beppo lived with his family there was a great big lake, in which lived a crocodile that was about two thousand years old. The...
3. CHAPTER III.After having gone along for three days and nights without stopping a minute to rest, finally the beast, that carried on his back the sack containing the little monkey, stopped s...
4. CHAPTER IV.When Alfred and Beppo found themselves alone, they began to look at each other without breathing or making any movements. They looked at each other some little time. Finally, Al...
5. CHAPTER V.The dog Newearth was one of those nice, intelligent, lovable dogs that attach themselves to their masters like real friends. When Alfred saw that Beppo had run away, he whistled...
6. CHAPTER VI.Contented at having found a good excuse for not keeping his promise, the little monkey said, shaking his head: “All right. Before going on the trip, I wish to see my mamma and m...
7. CHAPTER VII.In touching the serpent that was wrapped around his neck instead of a cravat, Beppo was taken with an indescribable fear. He would like to have screamed, but his tongue stuck to...
8. CHAPTER VIII.Now I will leave you to imagine how scared they were, when, jumping to their feet and opening wide their eyes, they saw themselves surrounded by a gang of ugly figures, black as...
9. CHAPTER IX.When the assassins had gone twenty miles, the terrible Dry-throat--for that was the name of the chief--stopped in the middle of a field, and, turning to his companions, said to...
10. CHAPTER X.As if these words were not addressed to him, the little monkey began to look here and there. Then, fixing his mobile and nervous eyes on the face of the chief of the assassins,...
11. CHAPTER XI.The little monkey had gone only a hundred paces from the Fly Inn when Candle-bit, jumping from his bed, called down the stairs with all the voice he had in his throat: “Ho, Mr....
12. CHAPTER XII.How in the world did Beppo find himself in that solitary house in the middle of the forest? What had happened to him after his flight from the Fly Inn? In order to answer these...
13. CHAPTER XIII.No one saw him, and no one knew what to do. Perhaps he ran out the window? Impossible, because all the windows were closed and locked from the inside. What then?
14. CHAPTER XIV.Meanwhile the little monkey persuaded himself every day that that little house was expressly built for him. Truly, he would have remained there all his life but for one occurren...