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Peck's bad boy abroad
The Bad Boy and His Dad Have an Automobile Ride--They Run Over a Peasant--Climb “Glaziers”--Dad Falls Over a Precipice, But Is Rescued by the Guides After a Hard Time of It
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The Bad Boy and His Dad Have an Automobile Ride--They Run Over a Peasant--Climb “Glaziers”--Dad Falls Over a Precipice, But Is Rescued by the Guides After a Hard Time of It
The Bad Boy and His Dad Have an Automobile Ride--They Run Over a Peasant--Climb “Glaziers”--Dad Falls Over a Precipice, But Is Rescued by the Guides After a Hard Time of It
15. Chapter 1516. Chapter 1617. Chapter 1718. Chapter 1819. Chapter 1920. Chapter 20The Bad Boy Tells About the Land of the Czar and the Trouble They Had to Get There--Dad Does a Stunt and Mixes It Up with the People and Soldiers
21. Chapter 2122. Chapter 2223. Chapter 2324. Chapter 2425. Chapter 2526. Chapter 2627. Chapter 2728. Chapter 2829. Chapter 29The Bad Boy Writes from Brussels--He and Dad See the Field of Waterloo and Call on King Leopold, and Dad and the King Go in for a Swim--The Bad Boy, a Dog and Some Goats Do the...
30. Chapter 30The Bad Boy's Delayed Letter About Holland and Cuba--Dad and the Boy Go for a Drive in a Dog-Cart--They Have a Great Time--Land in Cuba and See the Island We Fought For
31. Chapter 31The bad boy had been away to school, but the illness of his father had called him home, and for some weeks he had been looking about the old town. He had found few of his old fr...
32. Chapter 32The old groceryman was in front of the grocery, bent oyer a box of rutabagas, turning the decayed sides down to make the possible customer think all was not as bad as it might b...
33. Chapter 33The Bad Boy Writes About the Fun They Had Going to Washington--He and His Dad Call on President Roosevelt-- The Bad Boy Meets One of the Children and They Disagree.
34. Chapter 34New York City.--My Dear Uncle Ezra: I got a letter from my chum this morning, and he says he was in the grocery the day he wrote, and you were a sight. He says that if I am goin...
35. Chapter 35Waldorf-Astoria, New York.--Dear Uncle Ezra: We are still at this tavern, but we don't do anything but sleep here, and stay around in the lobby evenings to let people look at us...
36. Chapter 36I take the first opportunity, since leaving New York, to write you, 'cause the boat, after three days out, has got settled down so it runs level, and I can write without wrappin...
37. Chapter 37Well, sir, if a court sentenced me to live in this town, I would appeal the case, and ask the judge to temper his sentence with mercy, and hang me. Say, the fog here is so thick...
38. Chapter 38interest accumulate, nights, when he couldn't sleep, and yet he had no more enjoyment than Dreyfus did on Devil's Island. He had automobiles that would fill our exposition build...
39. Chapter 39London, England.--My Dear Chum: I received your letter yesterday, and it made me homesick. Gee, but if I could be home there with you and go down to the swimming hole and get in...
40. Chapter 40London, H-england.--Dear Uncle Ezra: The worst is over, and dad and I have both touched a king. Not the way you think, touching a king for a hand-out, or borrowing his loose cha...
41. Chapter 41London, England.--My Dear Old Skate: Well, if we are going to see any of the other countries on this side of the water before our return ticket expires, we have got to be gettin...
42. Chapter 42Paris, France.--My Dear Uncle Ezra: Dad is in an awful state here, and I do not know what to do with him. We struck this town all in a heap, and the people seemed to be paralyze...
43. Chapter 43Paris, France.--Old Pardner in Crime: I got your letter, telling me about the political campaign that is raging at home, and when I read it to dad he wanted to go right out and...
44. Chapter 44Monte Carlo.--Dear Uncle: I blush to write the name, Monte Carlo, at the head of a letter to anyone that is a Christian, or who believes in honesty and decency, and earning a li...
45. Chapter 45The Bad Boy and His Dad Have an Automobile Ride--They Run Over a Peasant--Climb “Glaziers”--Dad Falls Over a Precipice, But Is Rescued by the Guides After a Hard Time of It.
46. Chapter 46Venice, Italy.--My Dear Old Chumireno: Dad couldn't get out of Switzerland quick enough after he got thawed out the day after we climbed the glaziers. We found that almost all t...
47. Chapter 47Naples, Italy.--Dear Old Partner in Crime: Well, sir, we have struck a place that reminds us of home, and your old grocery store. The day we got here dad and I took a walk into...
48. Chapter 48Naples, Italy.--Siegnor ze Grocerino: I guess that will make you stand without hitching for a little while. Say, I am getting so full of dead languages, and foreign palaver, tha...
49. Chapter 49Rome, Italy.--My Dear Old “Pard:” Well, sir, if you could see me now, you wouldn't know me, because foreign travel has broadened me out so I can talk on any subject, and people...
50. Chapter 50Rome, Italy.--Dear Old Friend: You remember, don't you when you were a boy, playing “tag, you're it,” and “button, button, who's got the button?” that one of the trying situatio...
51. Chapter 51The Bad Boy Tells About the Land of the Czar and the Trouble They Had to Get There--Dad Does a Stunt and Mixes It Up with the People and Soldiers.
52. Chapter 52St. Petersburg, Russia.--My Dear Grocery-witz: Well, sir, dad and I have got too much of Russia the quickest of any two tourists you ever heard of. That skirmish we saw, the day...
53. Chapter 53Constantinople, Turkey.--My Dear Old “Shriner”--We got out of Russia just in time to keep from being arrested or blown up with a bomb. Dad wanted to go to Moscow, because he saw...
54. Chapter 54Constantinople, Turkey.--My Dear Grocer-pasha: When I wrote you last I thought you would be in mourning for dad and I before this, as there seemed nothing for the Turks to do bu...
55. Chapter 55Cairo, Egypt.--My Dear Old Irish Vegetable: Gee, but you ought to see dad and I right now at a hotel, waiting for a chance at a room, when a bride and groom get ready to vacate...
56. Chapter 56Cairo, Egypt.--My Dear Old Geezer: I broke off my last letter in sight of the pyramids, when I was left alone on the desert, my jackass having stampeded with the camels, on acco...
57. Chapter 57Gibraltar, in Spain and England. My Dear Foster Uncle: It seems good to get somewhere that you can hear the English language spoken by the Irish, and the English soldiers are ne...
58. Chapter 58Madrid, Spain.--My Dear Uncle: You probably think we are taking our lives in our hands by coming to Spain, so soon after the Cuban war, in which President Roosevelt charged up S...
59. Chapter 59Berlin, Germany.--My Dear Old Pummer-nickel: Now we have got pretty near home, and you would enjoy it to be with us, because you couldn't tell the town from Milwaukee, except fo...
60. Chapter 60The Bad Boy Writes from Brussels--He and Dad see the Field of Waterloo and call on King Leopold and Dad and the King go in for a Swim--The Bad Boy, a Dog and some Goats do the r...
61. Chapter 61The Bad Boy's Delayed Letter about Holland and Cuba--Dad and the Boy go for a Drive in a Dogcart--They have a Great Time-- Land in Cuba and See the Island t we Fought for.