Travels and Adventures of Little Baron TRUMP and His Wonderful Dog Bulger
Ingersoll Lockwood
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(Independently published, Jan. 21, 2019)
Within doors, I was fretful, peevish, irritable, but once out in the open air, my whole nature changed. I drank in the soft, balmy atmosphere with a vigor and a satisfaction that delighted my father. My face brightened, my eyes traveled from valley to hill, from mountain-top to sky.Into such an ecstacy of pleasure did this sight of the great world throw me, that my mother became anxious lest it presaged some great evil that was to happen unto me.But the stately Baron only smiled. âFear nothing, wife, it only means that within that little head dwells a most wonderfully active mind for a child of its months.âWhenever Bulger heard his little master crying out in joyful tones at sight of the beautiful world, he was sure to be 22seized with a fit of violent barking, during which he sprang around about me with the wildest and most extravagant manifestations of sympathy.Without a doubt, there was a wonderful bond of affection between us.To my motherâs-I had almost said horror, I, one day while she was walking with me in her arms, upon the broad veranda, which encircled ChewchewlĂ´âs palaces, attempted to throw myself from her arms, crying out in German: Los! Los! (Let me go! Let me go!) I was but two months old and the loud and vigorous tone in which I pronounced this first word which I had spoken in my motherâs tongue fairly startled her.I had, up to that time, apparently been more interested in the soft and musical language of my royal nurse, Chewlâ, in which I could make myself understood very easily. About this time an accident happened to me which, although it did not bring about, it greatly hastened the release from parently restraint, so ardently desired, both by Bulger and by me, for from my very entrance into this world something told me that I should be a famous child, not a mere, precocious youth who is made use of by his parents at social gatherings to bore people already in poor spirits, by mounting upon chair or table and declaiming verses, parrotlike, with half a dozen woodeny, jerky gestures; but a genuine hero, a real traveler, not afraid to brave a tempest, face a wild beast or bully a barbarous people into doing as he wanted them to do.It was my motherâs custom in the cool of the day to sit with me on the broad veranda while she darned my fatherâs stockings; for, although of gentle birth, she had been so accustomed when a girl to exercise German thrift in all things that now, even though she had become the wife of a real baron, she could not forego the pleasure of doing things in those good old ways.And thus she saved my father many a pfennig which the good man bestowed upon the worthy poor and went down to the grave loaded with their blessings.At such a time it was that a sudden fit of sneezing seized my mother and to her unspeakable horror she let me slip from her 23arms. Down, down I fell, striking in the soft mud and disappearing from sight.The poor woman dropped to the floor like lead.The stately baron rose to his feet and the color fled from his manly cheek.But Chew-chew-lĂ´, who fortunately was paying a visit to my father, only smiled.âUnfeeling barbarian!â roared the great baron, âhast no respect for a fatherâs tears, a motherâs anguish? Out upon thee! Would to heaven I had never entered thy domain!â Chew-chew-lĂ´ spake not a word. Turning with imperious mien and right royal manner towards a crowd of retainers, he waved his hand.Quicker than thought the band of Melodious Sneezers sprang to their wooden shoes.