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Title: Jimbo
A Fantasy

Author: Algernon Blackwood

Release Date: January 15, 2010 [EBook #30974]

Language: English

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JIMBO

MACMILLAN AND CO., Limited

LONDON . BOMBAY . CALCUTTA . MADRAS
MELBOURNE

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

NEW YORK . BOSTON . CHICAGO
DALLAS . ATLANTA . SAN FRANCISCO

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
OF CANADA, LIMITED

TORONTO

JIMBO

A FANTASY

_By_

ALGERNON
BLACKWOOD

MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED
ST. MARTIN'S STREET, LONDON

1930

COPYRIGHT

_First Published_ 1909
_The Caravan Library_ 1930

PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. "RABBITS" 7

II. MISS LAKE COMES--AND GOES 24

III. THE SHOCK 40

IV. ON THE EDGE OF UNCONSCIOUSNESS 49

V. INTO THE EMPTY HOUSE 54

VI. HIS COMPANION IN PRISON 69

VII. THE SPELL OF THE EMPTY HOUSE 87

VIII. THE GALLERY OF ANCIENT MEMORIES 102

IX. THE MEANS OF ESCAPE 111

X. THE PLUNGE 131

XI. THE FIRST FLIGHT 142

XII. THE FOUR WINDS 153

XIII. PLEASURES OF FLIGHT 165

XIV. AN ADVENTURE 177

XV. THE CALL OF THE BODY 193

XVI. PREPARATION 204

XVII. OFF! 219

XVIII. HOME 232

JIMBO

CHAPTER I

"RABBITS"

Jimbo's governess ought to have known better--but she didn't. If she
had, Jimbo would never have met with the adventures that subsequently
came to him. Thus, in a roundabout sort of way, the child ought to have
been thankful to the gov