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00 - Biographical Notice - Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey - Ingersoll Lockwood · Classic Science Fiction Books

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  Speaker 1: This is the biographical notice of Baron Trump's Marvelous Underground Journey.
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  Speaker 1: visit LibriVox dot org. Recording by Marcel D. Ward thesoul
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  Speaker 1: expands dot com. Baron Trump's Marvelous Underground Journey by Ingersoll
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  Speaker 1: Lockwood biographical notice. The biographical notice of Wilhelm Heinrich Sebastian
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  Speaker 1: von Trump, commonly called Little Baron Trump, as doubting Thomas's
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  Speaker 1: seemed to take particular pleasure in popping up on all
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  Speaker 1: occasions jack in a box like it may be well
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  Speaker 1: to head them off in this particular instance by proving
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  Speaker 1: that Baron Trump was a real baron and not a
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  Speaker 1: mere baron of the mind. The family was originally French
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  Speaker 1: Huguenot de la Trump, which, upon the revocation of the
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  Speaker 1: Edict of Nantess in sixteen eighty five, took refuge in Holland.
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  Speaker 1: Words head assumed the name of von der Trump, just
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  Speaker 1: as many other of the French Protestants rendered their names
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  Speaker 1: into Dutch. Some years later, upon the imitation of the
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  Speaker 1: Elector of Brandenburg, Nicholas van der Trump became a subject
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  Speaker 1: of that prince and purchased a large estate in the
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  Speaker 1: province of Pomerania, again changing his name, this time to
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  Speaker 1: von Trump. The little baron, so called from his diminutive stature,
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  Speaker 1: was born some time in the latter part of the
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  Speaker 1: seventeenth century. He was the last of his race in
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  Speaker 1: the direct line, and although cousins of his are today
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  Speaker 1: well known Pomeranian gentry. He began his travels at an
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  Speaker 1: incredibly early age, and filled his castle with such strange
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  Speaker 1: objects picked up here and there in the far away
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  Speaker 1: corners of the world, that the simple minded peasantry came
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  Speaker 1: to look upon him as half big wig and half
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  Speaker 1: magician hents the growth of the many myths and fancible
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  Speaker 1: stories concerning this indefatigable globe trotter. The date of his
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  Speaker 1: death cannot be fixed with any certainty, but this much
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  Speaker 1: may be said. Among the portraits of Pomeranian notables hanging
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  Speaker 1: in the wrathhouse at Steddin, there is one picturing a
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  Speaker 1: man of low stature and with a head much too
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  Speaker 1: large for his body. He is dressed in some outlandish
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  Speaker 1: costume and holes in his left hand A grotesque image
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  Speaker 1: in ivory most elaborately carved. The broad faces full of intelligence,
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  Speaker 1: and the large gray eyes are lighted up with a
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  Speaker 1: good nature but quizzical look that invariably attracts attention. The
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  Speaker 1: man's right hand rest upon the back of a dog,
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  Speaker 1: sitting on a table and looking straight out with an
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  Speaker 1: air of dignity that shows that he knew he was
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  Speaker 1: sitting for his portrait. If the visitor asked the guide
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  Speaker 1: who this man is, he always gets for answer, Oh,
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  Speaker 1: that's the little Baron. But little Baron who that's the question?
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  Speaker 1: Why may it not be the famous Wilhelm Heinrich Sebastian
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  Speaker 1: von Trump, commonly called Little Baron Trump and his wonderful
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  Speaker 1: dog Bulger and of biographical notice recording by Marcel d
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