This story is based on Verne's book, The Steam House. The Steam House is divided into two sections, called The Demon of Kanpur and Tigers and Traitors.
A reward of two thousand pounds will be paid to anyone who will deliver up, dead or alive, one of the prime movers of the Sepoy Revolt. He is commonly called Nana Sahib.
Many years ago, in Denmark, there lived a man and his three sons. The eldest son knew the whole dictionary by heart. The middle son knew every word that had been printed in the newspapers for three years back. Hans, the youngest son, was quite different. He was not so learned as his brothers so everyone called him clumsy Hans. But it is clumsy Hans who wins the princess at the end of the story.