
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Bumps and the Magic Purse
The Voyage to No-Such Land
Squeedinks and the Cod Liver Oil
Tom Now-You-See-Him-Now-You-Don’t
Colette, the Little Dancing Girl
Jerry and the Wishing-Ring
Patsy Ann in Birdland
Bumps is a rotund, accident‑prone boy who lives in a modest countryside hut with his mother. Though his days are filled with chopping wood and gathering berries, he dreams of finding a pot of gold to lift his family out of poverty. One sunrise he kisses his mother goodbye, tucks a rabbit’s foot for luck into his pocket, and sets off toward the city, his little legs already aching from the long trek.
Along the dusty road he spares a brown rabbit from a stray stone, and the shy creature immediately becomes his loyal companion. The pair share a hidden picnic basket the rabbit uncovers, and later the clever bunny distracts a hungry bear, leading the monster into a trapped hole and saving Bumps from danger. With a new friend at his side, Bumps continues his journey, his heart lighter and his hopes brighter than ever.
Language
en
Duration
~55 minutes (53K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Original publisher
United States: Dorrance & Company, 1924.
Credits
Charlene Taylor, David E. Brown, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
Release date
Jan 4, 2022
Rights
Public domain in the USA.
Best known for the imaginative children's tale Bumps and His Buddies, this little-documented writer appears to have been active in the mid-1920s, with work preserved today by public-domain and volunteer audiobook projects.
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