The Steeple-Climber |
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| i | In Which We Make the Acquaintance of "Steeple Bob" | 3 |
| ii | How They Blew Off the Top of a Steeple with Dynamite | 14 |
| iii | The Greatest Danger to a Steeple-Climber Lies in Being Startled | 21 |
| iv | Experience of an Amateur Climbing to a Steeple-top | 29 |
The Deep-Sea Diver |
| i | Some First Impressions of Men Who Go Down Under the Sea | 40 |
| ii | A Visit to the Burying-ground of Wrecks | 54 |
| iii | An Afternoon of Story-telling on the Steam-pump Dunderberg | 63 |
| iv | Wherein We Meet Sharks, Alligators, and a Very Tough Problem in Wrecking | 71 |
| v | In Which the Author Puts on a Diving-suit and Goes Down to a Wreck | 78 |
The Balloonist |
| i | Here We Visit a Balloon Farm and Talk with the Man Who Runs It | 87 |
| ii | Which Treats of Experiments in Steering Balloons | 99 |
| iii | Something About Explosive Balloons and the Wonders of Hydrogen | 110 |
| iv | The Story of a Boy Who Ran Away in a Big Balloon | 117 |
The Pilot |
| i | Some Stirring Tales of the Sea Heard at the Pilot's Club | 130 |
| ii | Which Shows How Pilots on the St. Lawrence Fight the Ice-floes | 141 |
| iii | Now We Watch the Men Who Shoot the Furious Rapids at Lachine | 148 |
| iv | What Canadian Pilots Did in the Cataracts of the Nile | 160 |
The Bridge-Builder |
| i | In Which We Visit a Place of Unusual Fears and Perils | 173 |
| ii | The Experience of Two Novices in Balancing Along Narrow Girders and Watching the "Traveler" Gang | 182 |
| iii | Which Tells of Men Who Have Fallen from Great Heights | 197 |
The Fireman |
| i | Wherein We See a Sleeping Village Swept by a River of Fire and the Burning of a Famous Hotel | 209 |
| ii | What Bill Brown Did in the Great Tarrant Fire | 222 |
| iii | Here We Visit an Engine-house at Night and Chat with the Driver | 233 |
| iv | Famous Rescues by New York Fire-boats from Red-hot Ocean Liners | 241< About one half the chapters in this book appeared serially in "St. Nicholas Magazine," the other half in the "New York Herald," and two chapters on the Locomotive Engineer, and one on the Wild-Beast Tamer appeared in "McClure's Magazine." Thanks are extended to all these for permission to republish.
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