Children's Book Series

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

Chapters

1. Chapter 1

2. Chapter 2

3. Chapter 3

4. Chapter 4

5. Chapter 5

6. Chapter 6

7. Chapter 7

8. Chapter 8

9. Chapter 9

10. Chapter 10

11. Chapter 11

12. Chapter 12

13. Chapter 13

14. Chapter 14

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 15

16. Chapter 16

17. Chapter 17

18. Chapter 18

19. Chapter 19

20. Chapter 20

The 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 21

22. Chapter 22

23. Chapter 23

24. Chapter 24

25. Chapter 25

26. Chapter 26

27. Chapter 27

28. Chapter 28

29. Chapter 29

The 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 30

The 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 31

The 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 32

The 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 33

The 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 34

New 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 35

Waldorf-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 36

I 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 37

Well, 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 38

interest 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 39

London, 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 40

London, 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 41

London, 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 42

Paris, 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 43

Paris, 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 44

Monte 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 45

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.

46. Chapter 46

Venice, 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 47

Naples, 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 48

Naples, 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 49

Rome, 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 50

Rome, 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 51

The 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 52

St. 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 53

Constantinople, 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 54

Constantinople, 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 55

Cairo, 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 56

Cairo, 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 57

Gibraltar, 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 58

Madrid, 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 59

Berlin, 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 60

The 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 61

The 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.