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Sure you examined the ground ahead, and saw to it we'd hit no bumps that might give us trouble?" "It's all right there, Tom; could hardly be better. But be sure you don't change from a straight course, because there's a nasty shell-hole, about ten feet deep, to the left. If we struck that good-night!" "I notice you marked it with that pole, Jack, and I'll swing clear, you can depend on that."
Not knowing what the two children were suffering from, she knew that it would be inadvisable for her companions even to enter the cabin. The girls found their way to the hayloft, after many bumps and falls accompanied by smothered cries and loud protests from Emma, and after he had tethered the horses and the mule just outside the barn, Washington Washington was put to bed on the barn floor.
Much as a locomotive, don't they?" It would not be exact to say that, after some weeks of this sort of campaigning, Mr. Crewe was discouraged, for such writhe vitality with which nature had charged him that he did not know the meaning of the word. He was merely puzzled, as a June-bug is puzzled when it bumps up against a wire window-screen. He had pledged to him his own gardener, Mrs.
Go a few miles below the Twin Cities and see how, by some mysterious alchemy of Nature, the Mississippi has taken over all the poison and the defilement, he has purified it and clarified it, and has made it a part of himself. And he is greater and farther south! He fattens upon bumps. Kick him, and you push him farther south. "Hand him a lemon," and he makes lemonade.
Josie's piece-speaking talent was evidently a direct inheritance. Some might call it a taint. Two days before one of Josie's public appearances her mother would twist the child's hair into innumerable rag curlers that stood out in grotesque, Topsy-like bumps all over her fair head. On the eventful evening each rag chrysalis would burst into a full-blown butterfly curl.
She was very much frightened, too; and talking of an automobile supplying bumps, her grip on Sir Ralph's arm must have supplied a regular pattern of bruises, during the animal episode. But worse than the terrified beasts were the ones that were not terrified.
"Well," she replied, "he seems to have done all the essential things." Once a friend who was learning the manual alphabet kept making "g," which is like the hand of a sign-post, for "h," which is made with two fingers extended. Finally Miss Keller told him to "fire both barrels." Mr. Joseph Jefferson was once explaining to Miss Keller what the bumps on her head meant.
"Yes, we'd like to know," said the Brakeman, taking a seat on the opposite locker, and regarding the boy with a curiosity that was not unmixed with suspicion. Owing to extensive dealings with tramps, Brakeman Joe was very apt to be suspicious of all persons who were dirty, and ragged, and had bumps on their foreheads.
"Yes, that's so. But what about the others? You want to hurt them, too?" "I don't care, so long as we get the right one, how many get their bumps." "That's right. But only one of them is on trapeze. What you do about other?" "It is the tall one that I want most. He's got to be put out of the running.
Mom Wallis, in her big, rough shoes, on the heels of which her scant brown calico gown was lifted as she walked, trudged shyly along between the two young people, as carefully watched and helped over the humps and bumps of the way as if she had been a princess.
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