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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 Doing in Case of War 15

No Encouragement for Inventive Genius in Orphan Home--The Boy Uses His New Invention, a Patent Clothes Wringer, in Milking 28

The Boy Escapes from Orphan Asylum--The Boy and His Chum Had Red Letter Days--The Boy is Adopted by New Friends 42

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 55

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

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--The Boy Goes With the Ships as a Mascot 78

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 Overboard to Feed the Sharks 91

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 Battery--The Bad Boy Makes a Trip to France to Meet His Pa 104

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 Were All Millionaires and Unmarried 131

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 American Government for ,000 145

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 the Men What Power He Has Over the Animal Kingdom 157

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

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

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

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--Pa Moves Camp to Hunt Gorillas 207

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

The Boy's Experience With an African Buffalo--The Boy's Pa Shoots Roman Candles to Scare the Buffaloes--The Boy's Pa Tames the Wild Animals 234

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 Boy to the Palace 246

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 Candles--The Boy, His Pa and the Natives Assist at the 4th of July Celebration 258

Gee, My Ideas of an Orphan Home Got a Shock.

The Way Freshmen Do in College When They're Being Murdered.

Gosh, But I Never Had Such an Excursion.

Grabbed the Balloon Rope and Gave it a Hitch Around the Pole.

Any Man That Lays Hands on the Government Mail Can Be Imprisoned for Life for Treason.

Hit the Chief of Police With a Bottle.

They Pulled Me Through the Forty-Foot Gun to Swab it Out.

When it Exploded the Jap Was the Scaredest Person I Ever Saw.

The Boss of the Boat Ordered Me Pulled Out With a Boat Hook.

I Am Thy Father's Ghost--Come on in, the Water's Fine.

The Captain Got Upon a Chair and Pulled a Revolver and Was Going to Shoot.

I Gave Him a Squeeze That Sent a Shock Through Him That Loosened His Teeth.

Pa's Face Was Scratched So They Sent Him to the Pest House.

After Pa Had Been Ducked in the Fountain They Charged for Two Ducks He Killed by Falling on Them.

The Fireworks Went Off. The Woman Threw a Fit and Pa Raised Out of the Smoke.

Up She Went With the Inventor Steering and Pa Hanging on for Dear Life.

Pa Gave a Honk Honk Like an Auto, But the Lion Wasn't Frightened So You Would Notice.

When Pa Found the Snake Coiled Up on His Blanket He Threw a Fit.

Looking Him Square in the Face I began to Chant, Ene-Mene-Miny-Mo.

Pa Astride of a Zebra, Has Frightened the Elephants Into a Stampede by Playing "A Hot Time" on a Mouth Organ.

Pa Made a Lunge and Fell on Top of the Little Elephant, Which Began to Make a Noise Like a Baby.

"There's Your Lions, About a Dozen, Captured Down in That Hole; Help Yourselves," Said Pa.

"Get in There, You Measly Cur Dog," Said Pa, Kicking the Big Lion at Every Jump.

Pa Stopped the Music and Repeated an Old Democratic Speech of His, and They Acted Just Like a Caucus.

All He Had to Do Was Play "Supper is Now Ready in the Dining Car."

Some of Those Negroes are Running Yet, and Will, No Doubt, Come Out at Cairo, Egypt.

Pa Had to Put His Foot on Their Necks and Acknowledge Him Their King and Protector.

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 Doing in Case of War.

I have always wanted to be an orphan and I guess now I have got my wish.

I have watched orphans a whole lot and they have seemed to me to have the easiest job outside of politics.

To see a good mess of orphans at an Orphan Asylum, with no parents to butt in and interfere with your enjoyment has seemed to me to be an ideal existence.

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