Category: Humour

Peck's Bad Boy in an airship

The Bad Boy Wants to Be an Orphan—The Bad Boy Goes to an Orphan Asylum—The Government Gives the Bad Boy’s Pa an Appointment to Travel Over the World and Get Information About Airships, Dirigible Balloons and Everything to Help Our Government Know What Other Governments are Doi...

Chapters

1. CHAPTER I.

The Bad Boy Wants to Be an Orphan—The Bad Boy Goes to an Orphan Asylum—The Government Gives the Bad Boy’s Pa an Appointment to Travel Over the World and Get Information About Ai...

2. CHAPTER II.

3. CHAPTER III.

4. CHAPTER IV.

A Bad Railroad Wreck—The Boy Contrasts Their Ride to One in a Parlor Car—The Lawyer is the Greatest Man on Earth—The Boy Settles His Claim for $20 55

5. CHAPTER V.

The Bad Boy Leaves St. Louis in a Balloon—The Boy Makes a Trip to San Francisco and Joins Evans’ Fleet—The Police Arrest Boy and Tie Up Balloon 67

6. CHAPTER VI.

The Balloon Lands in Delaware—The Boy Visits the Battleships—They Scour the Boy With a Piece of Brick and Some Laundry Soap—The Boy Investigates the Mechanism of the Battleships...

7. CHAPTER VII.

A Storm Comes from the Coast of Cuba—Everyone Goes to Sleep on the Ship Except the Watchman and Pilot—The Bad Boy is Put in the Dungeon—The Captain Says to Throw the Boy Overboa...

8. CHAPTER VIII.

The Boy Dresses Up in His Sunday Clothes and Tells the Captain He is Ready to Die—The Crew Throw a Steer Overboard to Feed a School of Sharks—The Boy Produces His New Electric B...

9. CHAPTER IX.

The Bad Boy Arrives in France—The Boy’s Pa is Suspected of Being an Anarchist—The Boy Finds Pa Seated at a Large Table Bragging About America—He Told Them the Men in America Wer...

10. CHAPTER X.

Pa Had the Hardest Time of His Life in Paris—Pa Drinks Some Goat Milk Which Gives Him Ptomaine Poison in His Inside Works—Pa Attends the Airship Club in the Country—Pa Draws on...

11. CHAPTER XI.

The Boy and His Pa Leave France and Go to Germany, Where They Buy an Airship—They Get the Airship Safely Landed—Pa and the Boy With the Airship Start for South Africa—Pa Shows t...

12. CHAPTER XII.

All Kinds of Climates in South Africa—Pa Hires Men to Capture Wild Animals—The Boy and His Pa Capture Some Tigers and a Big Lion—They Have a Narrow Escape from a Rhinoceros 170

13. CHAPTER XIII.

Pa Was a Hero After Capturing Two Tigers and a Lion—Pa Had an Old Negro With Sixty Wives Working for Him—Pa Makes His Escape in Safety—Pa Goes to Catch Hippopotamusses 181

14. CHAPTER XIV.

Pa Was Blackmailed and Scared Out of Lots of Money—Pa Teaching the Natives to Speak English—Pa Said the Natives Acted Like Human Beings—Pa Buys Some Animals in the Jungle 194

15. CHAPTER XV.

The Idea of Airships is All Right in Theory, but They are Never Going to Be a Reliable Success—Pa Drowns the Lions Out With Gas—The Bad Boy and His Pa Capture a Couple of Lions—...

16. CHAPTER XVI.

The Boy’s Pa Shows Bravery in the Jungles in Africa—Four Gorillas Chase Pa—The Boy and His Pa Don’t Sleep Much at Night—The Boy Discovers a Marsh Full of Wild Buffaloes 220

17. CHAPTER XVII.

18. CHAPTER XVIII.

The Boy and His Pa Start for the Coast in an Airship—Pa Saluted the Crowd as We Passed Over Them—The Airship Lands Amid a Savage Tribe—The King of the Tribe Escorts Pa and the B...

19. CHAPTER XIX.

The Boy’s Pa Becomes King over the Negroes—Pa Shows the Natives How to Dig Wells—Pa Teaches the Natives to become Soldiers—The Boy Uses a Dozen Nigger Chasers and Some Roman Can...

20. CHAPTER I.

The Bad Boy Wants to Be an Orphan—The Bad Boy Goes to an Orphan Asylum—The Government Gives the Bad Boy’s Pa an Appointment to Travel Over the World and Get Information About Ai...

21. CHAPTER II.

I always supposed that an orphanage was a place where they tried to make an orphan feel that it wasn’t such a great loss not to have a regular home, among your people as long as...

22. CHAPTER III.

There is not much fun in being an orphan until you escape from the orphan asylum, and I want to say that my chum and myself have had two red letter days in the town where we see...

23. CHAPTER IV.

A Bad Railroad Wreck—The Boy Contrasts Their Ride to One in a Parlor Car—The Lawyer Is the Greatest Man on Earth—The Boy Settles His Claim for $20.

24. CHAPTER V.

When our balloon left St. Louis, and got up in the air so far that the earth looked like a piece of rag carpet, with pop corn scattered over it, which were villages, and I reali...

25. CHAPTER VI.

The Balloon Lands in Delaware—The Boy Visits the Battleships—They Scour the Boy With a Piece of Brick and Some Laundry Soap—The Boy Investigates the Mechanism of the Battleships...

26. CHAPTER VII.

A Storm Comes from the Coast of Cuba—Everyone Goes to Sleep on the Ship Except the Watchman and Pilot—The Bad Boy Is Put in the Dungeon—The Captain Says to Throw the Boy Overboa...

27. CHAPTER VIII.

The Boy Dresses Up in His Sunday Clothes and Tells the Captain He Is Ready to Die—The Crew Throw a Steer Overboard to Feed a School of Sharks—The Boy Produces His New Electric B...

28. CHAPTER IX.

The Bad Boy Arrives in France—The Boy’s Pa Is Suspected of Being an Anarchist—The Boy Finds Pa Seated at a Large Table Bragging About America—He Told Them the Men in America Wer...

29. CHAPTER X.

Pa Had the Hardest Time of His Life in Paris—Pa Drinks Some Goat Milk Which Gives Him Ptomaine Poison in His Inside Works—Pa Attends the Airship Club in the Country—Pa Draws on...

30. CHAPTER XI.

The Boy and His Pa Leave France and Go to Germany, Where They Buy an Airship—They Get the Airship Safely Landed—Pa and the Boy With the Airship Start for South Africa—Pa Shows t...

31. CHAPTER XII.

All Kinds of Climates in South Africa—Pa Hires Men to Capture Wild Animals—The Boy and His Pa Capture Some Tigers and a Big Lion—They Have a Narrow Escape from a Rhinoceros.

32. CHAPTER XIII.

Pa Was a Hero After Capturing Two Tigers and a Lion—Pa Had an Old Negro With Sixty Wives Working for Him—Pa Makes His Escape in Safety—Pa Goes to Catch Hippopotamusses.

33. CHAPTER XIV.

Pa Was Blackmailed and Scared Out of Lots of Money—Pa Teaching the Natives to Speak English—Pa Said the Natives Acted Like Human Beings—Pa Buys Some Animals in the Jungle.

34. CHAPTER XV.

The Idea of Airships Is all Right in Theory, but They Are Never Going to Be a Reliable Success—Pa Drowns the Lions Out With Gas—The Bad Boy and His Pa Capture a Couple of Lions—...

35. CHAPTER XVI.

The Boy’s Pa Shows Bravery in the Jungles in Africa—Four Gorillas Chase Pa—The Boy and His Pa Don’t Sleep Much at Night—The Boy Discovers a Marsh Full of Wild Buffaloes.

36. CHAPTER XVII.

When Pa told us that he had located a place where we could get all the wild African buffalo that we wanted, I thought of the pictures I had seen of the killing of buffaloes in A...

37. CHAPTER XVIII.

The Boy and His Pa Start for the Coast in an Airship—Pa Saluted the Crowd as We Passed Over Them—The Airship Lands Amid a Savage Tribe—The King of the Tribe Escorts Pa and the B...

38. CHAPTER XIX.

The Boy’s Pa Becomes King Over the Negroes—Pa Shows the Natives How to Dig Wells—Pa Teaches the Natives to Become Soldiers—The Boy Uses a Dozen Nigger Chasers and Some Roman Can...

39. CHAPTER XX.

The Boy Goes Home from Church with a Girl—The Boy Meets the Girl’s Pa at a Barbecue—Pa Fills the Gas Bag and They Get Ready to Sail the Airship—Pa, the Boy and the King Take a R...

40. CHAPTER XXI.

We Spend a Couple of Days at a Michigan Man’s Ranch in Darkest Africa—Pa and the Cowboys Take a Bath—After Smoking about 50 Cigars—Pa Told What Cowards Lions and Tigers Were—Pa...

41. CHAPTER XXII.

Pa and the Boy Have a Series of Ups and Downs—Pa Plays Poker with the Michigan Man and Loses All His Money—Pa Puts Up His Airship and Loses—Pa and the Boy Start for Hamburg—The...