The story is that of a well-to-do merchant employing a nurse to care for his four-year-old daughter. While taking the little one for a constitutional one day the little toy balloon becomes ... See full summary
Nurse's Travels (1907) Online
The story is that of a well-to-do merchant employing a nurse to care for his four-year-old daughter. While taking the little one for a constitutional one day the little toy balloon becomes loosened from its moorings at the foot of the perambulator and rises to a point under the branches of overhanging shade trees. Placing the child on the green sward, she uses the vehicle to enable her to reach the balloon, when unfortunately her weight causes the vehicle to move forward down an incline, with the nurse seated therein. Soon it reaches the road, and gaining momentum it fairly snorts along its course, plunging both vehicle and occupant into a river, the swift-flowing current of which carries her on, past most beautiful scenery. Her frantic screams and wild maneuvers fail to attract the attention of passing craft, and she is apparently doomed. After being carried out into the ocean she is washed ashore on an island inhabited by cannibals, where she is soon observed, and with wild ...