Produced by Suzanne Shell, Sankar Viswanathan, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net ROUND-ABOUT RAMBLES In Lands of FACT AND FANCY BY FRANK R STOCKTON _NEW EDITION_ NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS 1910 Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1872, BY SCRIBNER. ARMSTRONG & CO., In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. CONTENTS WINTER IN THE WOODS TRICKS OF LIGHT SAVING THE TOLL THE REAL KING OF BEASTS THE FRENCH SOLDIER-BOY A LIVELY WAY TO RING A BELL DOWN IN THE EARTH THE LION BOB'S HIDING-PLACE THE CONTINENTAL SOLDIER A JUDGE OF MUSIC THE SENSITIVE PLANT SIR MARMADUKE THE GIRAFFE UP IN THE AIR THE ARABIAN HORSE INDIAN-PUDDINGS: PUMPKIN-PIES LIVING IN SMOKE THE CANNON OF THE PALAIS-ROYAL WATERS, DEEP AND SHALLOW HANS THE HERB-GATHERER SOME CUNNING INSECTS A FIRST SIGHT OF THE SEA THE LARGEST CHURCH IN THE WORLD THE SOFT PLACE A FEW FEATHERED FRIENDS IN A WELL A VEGETABLE GAS MANUFACTORY ABOUT BEARS AN OLD COUNTRY-HOUSE FAR-AWAY FORESTS BUILDING SHIPS THE ORANG-OUTANG LITTLE BRIDGET'S BATH SOME NOVEL FISHING EAGLES AND LITTLE GIRLS CLIMBING MOUNTAINS ANDREW'S PLAN THE WILD ASS ANCIENT RIDING BEAUTIFUL BUGS A BATTLE ON STILTS DRAWING THE LONG BOW AN ANCIENT THEATRE BIRD CHAT MUMMIES TAME SNAKES GYMNASTICS BUYING "THE MIRROR" BIG GAME THE BOOTBLACK'S DOG GOING AFTER THE COWS THE REFLECTIVE STAG WHEN WE MUST NOT BELIEVE OUR EYES A CITY UNDER THE GROUND THE COACHMAN GEYSERS, AND HOW THEY WORK A GIANT PUFF-BALL TICKLED BY A STRAW THE LIGHT IN THE CASTLE THE OAK TREE THE SEA-SIDE THE SICK PIKE TWO KINDS OF BLOSSOMS ABOUT GLASS CARL SCHOOL'S OUT NEST-BUILDERS THE BOOMERANG LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS _Frontispiece._ The Woodcutter The Minstrel on the Wall Tricks in a Church The Dance of Demons Nostradamus The Lion's Head The Theatrical Ghost The Toll-bridge A Royal Procession An Elephant after Him The Dog's Protector An Elephant Nurse Saving the Artillery-man The Gallant Elephant The French Soldier-Boy On a Bell Fishes found in the Mammoth Cave The Bottomless Pit The Lion's Home The Uncaged Lion A Lion's Dinner A Terrible Companion Off to the Kitchen Blind Man's Buff The Story-Teller In the Cellar Handing round the Apples The Drummer of 1776 The Continental Soldier The Donkey in the Parlor Sir Marmaduke The Giraffe Above the Clouds The Flying Man The Parachute--shut The Parachute--open Le Flesseles Bagnolet's Balloon Coming down Roughly A Balloon with Sails and Rudders The Minerva Safe Ballooning Driven out to Sea The Arabian Horse