Bumps and His Buddies

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Bumps and His Buddies

by Marie Helene Gulbransen

EN·~55 minutes·8 chapters

Chapters

8 total

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

0:26

Bumps and the Magic Purse

9:56

The Voyage to No-Such Land

9:18

Squeedinks and the Cod Liver Oil

7:05

Tom Now-You-See-Him-Now-You-Don’t

8:20

Colette, the Little Dancing Girl

7:20

Jerry and the Wishing-Ring

6:43

Patsy Ann in Birdland

6:36

Description

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.

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Details

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.

About the author

MH

Marie Helene Gulbransen

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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