The Wonderful Baron Doppelgänger Device by Eric Bower

Author:Eric Bower
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Juvenile fiction, Inventors, Inventions, Cloning, Arizona Territory, Arizona, History, 19th Century History, Adventure, Adventure and Adventurers, United States, Science Fiction, Steampunk, Technology
ISBN: 9781944995522
Publisher: Amberjack Publishing
Published: 2018-03-06T00:00:00+00:00

I hit the ground and bounced, flipping end over end as my exhausted body met the grass and dirt and rocks, bouncing and tumbling and spinning and rolling until I was so dizzy that the dancing pink and purple squirrels I saw out of the corner of my eyes looked as though they were getting seasick. As I tumbled, I could still hear those horrible singing voices—“Camptown Races” echoing in the back of my brain like an off-key bell. When I finally stopped my somersaults and backflips, I looked up and saw the Old 44 Express riding off into the distance, chugging along without me, on its way to Chicago.

“Farewell, Lefty and Lefty Also,” I muttered. “The memory of your kindness will live on in my heart. And the memory of your singing voices will live on in my nightmares.”

Well, I had done it. I had escaped the train and survived the fall. I stood up on legs that felt as though they were made of melting butter and looked around. I was in a wide-open prairie, and when I say wide, I mean w i d e. There was nothing for miles except for more prairies, endless stretches of tall grass and dirt and rocks and bushes. It was late morning, the sun having already completed its trip over the horizon. As I looked around at the empty landscape, a cold breeze blew through my hair. Birds cawed, lizards scuttled, insects buzzed, and I was alone.

When I’m in a terrible and hopeless situation (which happens far too often, in my opinion), I sometimes find that the best thing to do is to pretend to be someone else, someone who is much smarter than me. Why do I do that, you ask? Well, because being far from home with no money or horse might seem like a hopeless situation for silly little W.B., but it wouldn’t be a problem for my brilliant father. What if P was in my situation? What would he do? How would he save himself? If I could think like my brilliant and creative father, then I could come up with a way to get back home.

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