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It was at first supposed that this forest grew only on the "mountains," of which the hero of About's most amusing story, Le Roi des Montagnes, was "king;" but stumps, with the shoots attached, have been sent to Germany, and recognized by able botanists as true natural products, and the fact must now be considered as established.
"Rotten luck!" exploded Jud Elderkin, as he looked helplessly around, as if to see whether a fellow could at least jump ashore; but since ten feet of that ooze lay on either side, he failed to get much encouragement. "Ahoy, Speedwell, you'll have to give us a lift!" called Paul, making a megaphone out of his hands. "Y-y-yes, t-t-turn about's f-f-fair p-p-play," added Bluff, waving his bugle.
Go off to one o' them bu'ful foreign countries as I've told you of, where there's gold and silver and dymons, and birds jus' like 'em; and wild beasts to kill, and snakes as long as the main mast. Ah! I've seen some sights in furren abroad, as what I've told you about's like nothing to 'em. Look here, Mas' Don, shall I stop on for an hour and tell you what I've seen in South America?"
Bixbee, looking up at her brother, "thet after all the' was anythin' you said to the deakin thet he could ketch holt on." "The' wa'n't nothin'," he replied. "The only thing he c'n complain about's what I didn't say to him." "Hain't he said anythin' to ye?" Mrs. Bixbee inquired. "He, he, he, he! He hain't but once, an' the' wa'n't but little of it then." "How?"
Some of these days they'll have to be washed, and then they'll shrink up so short that I suppose I'll have to freeze either my chin or my toes. And as to her giving them to me, 'turn about's fair play. I once joined in to give her a pair." "Oh," said Mrs. Ferguson. Mr.
Then with a teasing "turn about's fair play," he, too, took a frank look, oddly stirred by the sophisticated touches which added so subtly to her natural beauty.
"Fetch me a pannikin o' tea, for it's dry work tellin' a anikdot. You see, Gaff, I'm a reg'lar teetotaller never go the length o' coffee even without a doctor's surtificate. Another cup, Susan?" "No thank 'ee, father, I couldn't." "Werry good. Now, Gaff, what's the 'ticklers o' your case. Time about's fair play, you know."
I ain't kickin' at your givin' me tit for tat, or tryin' to. Turn about's fair play, if you can call the turn. But it's against my principles to allow anybody to beat me on a business deal. Do you suppose, he says, 'that I'd have paid your robber's prices without a word if I hadn't had somethin' up my sleeve? Why, man, says he, 'I gave you my CHECKS, not cash.
"He didn't give me a crust to eat the first night I was on ship. Turn about's fair play, Captain Lewis. Take him to the quarters." When the convict found himself manacled, his terror increased. He pulled away from Bob and approached Browne. "Let me speak a word, master," he began tremulously. "I'm all broke up and ruinated, anyhow. I know the devil must 'a' been in me the day I took you away.
He told us there was no fear of redskins here, yet, when the scream of a painter or the hoot of an owl stirred me from my exhausted slumber, I caught sight of him with his back to a tree, staring into the forest, his rifle at his side. The day was dawning. "Turn about's fair," I expostulated. "Ye'll need yere sleep, Davy," said he, "or ye'll never grow any bigger."
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