Tom Swift in the City of Gold; Or, Marvelous Adventures Underground

ing is all ready

f anything more

to death! I never thought getting ready to go off on a simple little trip was so much work. We o

r some time, and we'll only need an airship or a dirigible balloon for short trips here and there. We've got to go

eccentric man. "Well, I'm

e to take steamer to a small port on the Mexican coast, and every one was

ad, as had most of their supplies, weapons and other needed articles.

asked Tom of the colored man, who was busy helping them

' daddy. 'Sides, Boomerang is gettin' old, an' when a mu

good, anyhow," said Tom. "Many's

ab. Nobody kin manage dat air mule but me, an' if I were to leave him, de

ny," said Ned, and a moment later he remembered that Tom did not want the colored man to know anything a

images?" asked Eradicate,

y at Tom, and said, with

ll,

t to bring back some images of solid gold from the underground city. If you go along

ld images, Massa Tom?"

going now, Tom

gger than three men, and there must be any number of smaller ones--say boy's si

aid Eradicate in a dreamy voice. "An'--an' some big

sure. Wh

ld. My golly I's gwine along! Look out ob mah way, ef yo' please,--Mr. Damon.

t you to talk about this gold image part of it. You can say we'r

ass images, dat's what I'll say--brass! We's gwine

d," cautioned Tom. "But, Rad, there's another thing. W

ters? Wha

d chop off your hea

some of dem gold images, I is, an' ef I gits some I'll build de finest stable Boomerang ever saw, an' he kin hab oats fo' times a day. Dat's what I's gwine t' do. Now look out ob mah way, Mr. Damon

the secret away,

imself useful around camp. I've been sorry ever since he said he wouldn't

d fork, that's so!

d-byes had been said to Mr. Swift, and Mrs. Baggert, Tom, Ned and Mr. Damon, followed by the faithful colored man, set off for the depot to take the t

th their first disappointment. The steamer on which they were to take pa

clean the boilers, load another cargo in her

re we to do?

doesn't much matter. We're in no great rush, and it will

ody good," remarked Mr. Damon, "I've been wanting to

om "and enjoy ourselves as long as