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