Baron Sebastian von Trump
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5,524 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 8 Aug
Baron Sebastian von Trump’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Bulger's tail, and then to give it a playful nip.
Yet the sagacious animal never budged a hair's breadth.
Mind hath ordered now let hands obey, I exclaimed, as I sprang up and began stripping off my outer garments.
This done I clamoured up on the side of the funnel and began to collect a supply of the black lead.
which I deposited near the opening of the pipe.
The next thing to do was to get Bulgar through the pipe ahead of me.
To this end I tied him up in my clothing, bag fashion, and began to lower away.
After paying out sixty five or seventy feet of line, he struck bottom, and by his loud barking gave me to understand that it was all rigid, that I might make the descent myself.
Upon hearing his voice I gave the line a few sharp tugs.
He was not so slow to comprehend my meaning, and in a moment or so had not only scrambled out of the bag himself but pulled my clothing loose so that I might draw the line up again.
My next step was to contrive a way to wait to myself when the moment arrived to begin the descent, for I felt sure that I never should be able to arrange it so as to slip through the pipe unless something was pulling at my heels.
Cutting off about ten feet of the rope, I made fast one end of the piece to a long piece of rock, weighing about a hundred pounds.
This I laid near the mouth of the pipe ready for use.
But now came the most difficult thing of all.
It was to draw my shoulders in on my breast and lash them securely in that position, by which plan I expected to reduce my width in at least two good inches.
These two inches thus gained, or rather lost, might be the means by which I would be able to slip through the pipe of polyphemus' funnel and reach the vast underground passage leading to the world within a world.
Putting a noose around my chest, just below my collarbone, I drew my shoulders in as tight as I could bear, and changed the slick knot into a hard one.
Then having made the other end of the line fast to the side of the funnel, I proceeded to wind myself up, as the housewives often do, a big sausage, to keep it from bursting.
This done I set about rolling in the black lead until I was thoroughly smeared with it.
There was now but one thing more to do before dropping myself into the pipe, and that was to make fast the weight to my feet.
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