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Title: Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey Author: Ingersoll Lockwood Illustrator: Charles Howard Johnson Release date: June 30, 2018 [eBook #57426] Language: English Other information and formats: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/57426 Credits: Produced by Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) *** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BARON TRUMP'S MARVELLOUS UNDERGROUND JOURNEY *** Produced by Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) [Illustration: ONLY AUTHENTIC PORTRAIT OF WILHELM HEINRICH SEBASTIAN VON TROOMP (FROM THE OIL PAINTING). ] BARON TRUMP'S MARVELLOUS UNDERGROUND JOURNEY BY INGERSOLL LOCKWOOD AUTHOR OF "TRAVELS AND ADVENTURES OF LITTLE BARON TRUMP AND HIS WONDERFUL DOG BULGER" "WONDERFUL DEEDS AND DOINGS OF LITTLE GIANT BOAB AND HIS TALKING RAVEN TABIB" "EXTRAORDINARY EXPERIENCES OF LITTLE CAPTAIN DOPPELKOP ON THE SHORES OF BUBBLELAND" ETC. ILLUSTRATED BY CHARLES HOWARD JOHNSON BOSTON LEE AND SHEPARD PUBLISHERS 10 MILK STREET 1893 COPYRIGHT, 1892, BY INGERSOLL LOCKWOOD _All Rights Reserved_ MARVELLOUS UNDERGROUND JOURNEY ------------------------------------------------------------------------ BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE OF WILHELM HEINRICH SEBASTIAN VON TROOMP, COMMONLY CALLED LITTLE BARON TRUMP As doubting Thomases seem to take particular pleasure in popping up on all occasions, Jack-in-the-Box-like, it may be well to head them off in this particular instance by proving that Baron Trump was a real baron, and not a mere baron of the mind. The family was originally French Huguenot-De la Trompe-which, upon the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, took refuge in Holland, where its head assumed the name of Van der Troomp, just as many other of the French Protestants rendered their names into Dutch. Some years later, upon the invitation of the Elector of Brandenburg, Niklas Van der Troomp became a subject of that prince, and purchased a large estate in the province of Pomerania, again changing his name, this time to Von Troomp. The "Little Baron," so called from his diminutive stature, was born some time in the latter part of the seventeenth century. He was the last of his race in the direct line, although cousins of his are to-day well-known Pomeranian gentry. He began his travels at an incredibly early age, and filled his castle with such strange objects picked up here and there in the far away corners of the world, that the simple-minded peasantry came to look upon him as half bigwig and half magician-hence the growth of the many myths and fanciful stories concerning this indefatigable globe-trotter. The date of his death cannot be fixed with any certainty; but this much may be said: Among the portraits of Pomeranian notables hanging in the Rathhaus at Stettin, there is one picturing a man of low stature, and with a head much too large for his body. He is dressed in some outlandish costume, and holds in his left hand a grotesque image in ivory, most elaborately carved. The broad face is full of intelligence, and the large gray eyes are lighted up with a good-natured but quizzical look that invariably attracts attention. The man's right hand rests upon the back of a dog sitting on a table and looking straight out with an air of dignity that shows that he knew he was sitting for his portrait. If a visitor asks the guide who this man is, he always gets for answer:- "Oh, that's the Little Baron!" But little Baron who, that's the question? Why may it not be the famous Wilhelm Heinrich Sebastian von Troomp, commonly called "Little Baron Trump," and his wonderful dog Bulger? CONTENTS CHAPTER I. PAGE BULGER IS GREATLY ANNOYED BY THE FAMILIARITY OF THE VILLAGE DOGS AND THE PRESUMPTION OF THE HOUSE CATS.-HIS HEALTH SUFFERS THEREBY, AND HE IMPLORES ME TO SET OUT ON MY TRAVELS AGAIN. I READILY CONSENT, FOR I HAD BEEN READING OF THE WORLD WITHIN A WORLD IN A MUSTY OLD MS. WRITTEN BY THE LEARNED DON FUM.-PARTING INTERVIEWS WITH THE ELDER BARON AND THE GRACIOUS BARONESS MY MOTHER.-PREPARATIONS FOR DEPARTURE. 1 CHAPTER II. DON FUM's MYSTERIOUS DIRECTIONS.-BULGER AND I SET OUT FOR PETERSBURG, AND THENCE PROCEED TO ARCHANGEL.-THE STORY OF OUR JOURNEY AS FAR AS ILITCH ON THE ILITCH.-IVAN THE TEAMSTER.-HOW WE MADE OUR WAY NORTHWARD IN SEARCH OF THE PORTALS TO THE WORLD WITHIN A WORLD.-IVAN'S THREAT.-BULGER'S DISTRUST OF THE MAN AND OTHER THINGS. 7 CHAPTER III. IVAN MORE AND MORE TROUBLESOME.-BULGER WATCHES HIM CLOSELY.-HIS COWARDLY ATTACK UPON ME.-MY FAITHFUL BULGER TO THE RESCUE.-A DRIVER WORTH HAVING.-HOW I WAS CARRIED TO A PLACE OF SAFETY.-IN THE HANDS OF OLD YULIANA.-THE GIANTS' WELL. 15 CHAPTER IV. MY WOUND HEALS.-YULIANA TALKS ABOUT THE GIANTS' WELL.-I RESOLVE TO VISIT IT.-PREPARATIONS TO ASCEND THE MOUNTAINS.-WHAT HAPPENED TO YULIANA AND TO ME.-REFLECTION AND THEN ACTION.-HOW I CONTRIVED TO CONTINUE THE ASCENT WITHOUT YULIANA FOR A GUIDE. 20 CHAPTER V. UP AND STILL UP, AND THROUGH THE QUARRIES OF THE DEMONS.-HOW THE CATTLE KEPT THE TRAIL, AND HOW WE CAME AT LAST UPON THE BRINK OF THE GIANTS' WELL.-THE TERRACES ARE SAFELY PASSED.-BEGINNING OF THE DESCENT INTO THE WELL ITSELF.-ALL DIFFICULTIES OVERCOME.-WE REACH THE EDGE OF POLYPHEMUS' FUNNEL. 28 CHAPTER VI. MY DESPAIR UPON FINDING THE PIPE OF THE FUNNEL TOO SMALL FOR MY BODY.-A RAY OF HOPE BREAKS IN UPON ME.-FULL ACCOUNT OF HOW I SUCCEEDED IN ENTERING THE PIPE OF THE FUNNEL.-MY PASSAGE THROUGH IT.-BULGER'S TIMELY AID.-THE MARBLE HIGHWAY AND SOME CURIOUS THINGS CONCERNING THE ENTRANCE TO THE WORLD WITHIN A WORLD. 33 CHAPTER VII. OUR FIRST NIGHT IN THE UNDER WORLD, AND HOW IT WAS FOLLOWED BY THE FIRST BREAK OF DAY.-BULGER'S WARNING AND WHAT IT MEANT.-WE FALL IN WITH AN INHABITANT OF THE WORLD WITHIN A WORLD.-HIS NAME AND CALLING.-MYSTERIOUS RETURN OF NIGHT.-THE LAND OF BEDS, AND HOW OUR NEW FRIEND PROVIDED ONE FOR US. 42 CHAPTER VIII. "GOOD-MORNING AS LONG AS IT LASTS."-PLAIN TALK FROM MASTER COLD SOUL.-WONDERS OF GOGGLE LAND.-WE ENTER THE CITY OF THE MIKKAMENKIES.-BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF IT.-OUR APPROACH TO THE ROYAL PALACE.-QUEEN GALAXA AND HER CRYSTAL THRONE.-MASTER COLD SOUL'S TEARS. 51 CHAPTER IX. BULGER AND I ARE PRES |