Category: Science-Fiction & Fantasy
“Well, that is strange,” exclaimed Frank Reade, Jr., with a whistle of surprise. “I am positive that is my old friend, Buckden, whom I knew at college. Upon my word, this breaks me all up.”
The snake, in its writhings, had not only closed the throttle by twisting the rein about its body, but had also pulled open the whistle valve in the same manner.
1. CHAPTER I.“Well, that is strange,” exclaimed Frank Reade, Jr., with a whistle of surprise. “I am positive that is my old friend, Buckden, whom I knew at college. Upon my word, this brea...
5. CHAPTER V.“Well, you’re right, Pomp,” agreed Frank, regarding the other with interest. “If he is a specimen of the aborigines of this country they were a funny looking lot of people.”
2. CHAPTER II.“You can see that he is constructed of plates of iron,” said Frank, explanatively. “The legs are reservoirs for water, the furnace is in his chest and the smoke-pipe is his hig...
6. CHAPTER VI.The astounded Celt felt the stone give way beneath him, but before he had time to recover himself it had turned completely over, and he felt himself descending through space and...
8. CHAPTER VIII.“Begorra, that’s something that ivery man can’t say!” he exclaimed, with twinkling eyes. “I went out to get one leopard and was the cause av baggin’ four av thim. Shure, I’ll ha...
4. CHAPTER IV.He did not finish his speech. In a twinkling a thrilling thing happened. The polished stone, owing to some mysterious and inexplicable agency, turned and Barney vanished like a...
9. CHAPTER IX.“Oh, yes. I am anxious to; the way of it is, I have sickened of roaming in this accursed clime. Father says he will take me into Wall street with him, and I’m going to accept hi...
7. CHAPTER VII.“Go due east across this table-land. When a tall, sugar-loaf shaped mountain is directly ahead of you, bear to the right and enter a canyon. It will take you directly to Mazend...
3. CHAPTER III.Frank knew this, and that it would be either victory for one or the other. If the python should succeed in overturning the wagon, he might do great harm to the delicate machiner...
10. CHAPTER X.“I don’t know where I am, nor if I shall ever get out of here alive,” muttered the young inventor, “but I must try. I will swim as far as I can.”
11. CHAPTER XI.“My plan,” he declared, “is to displace the mortar as far as possible, and perhaps we can loosen some of these stones and make an aperture large enough to get out through.”