This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER SEVEN.. CONCERNING THE GINGERBREADIANS AND KING BOWWOWRIUS. 1 HE wood which Frank had entered was very thick--so overgrown with underwood that for a long way he had to crawl on his hands and knees, in order to get forward. But he did not mind that so much, as he felt it would be an effectual ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER SEVEN.. CONCERNING THE GINGERBREADIANS AND KING BOWWOWRIUS. 1 HE wood which Frank had entered was very thick--so overgrown with underwood that for a long way he had to crawl on his hands and knees, in order to get forward. But he did not mind that so much, as he felt it would be an effectual means of hiding his retreat from his four-footed foes. So he was more amused than alarmed when, as he was sitting down to rest at the foot of a tree where there was a little open space and a comfortable disposition of roots that formed a sort of natural armchair, he heard a distant howling, grunting, and bellowing, which proved that his late captors had waked up and discovered his evasion. He listened attentively to see if the sounds came any nearer; but they, on the contrary, seemed to die away in the opposite direction, and he felt, therefore, half inclined to believe that the good-natured Zecamelobra had done him further service by sending his pursuers off on the wrong track. He hoped it was the case, for he had had a lurking suspicion that when the fierce carnivora awoke to find that their prey had escaped them, they might take their revenge on his graminivorous benefactor for having sung them off to sleep by his very monotonous lullaby. Feeling secure from pursuit, Frank rose and proceeded leisurely on his travels. The sense of. danger having disappeared, it was succeeded by another feeling not much more agreeable. Frank began to discover that he was fearfully hungry. He looked up at the trees in hopes of seeing some eatable fruit. Alas! he had, without noticing it, wandered into a part of the wood that consisted entirely of those toy-trees, with shaving foliage, smooth stems, and little round green stands, with which he was well...
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