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After that Bumpus threw up his hands, and said he would wait on the crowd when they had their dinner upon arriving home; which he certainly did, and with such success that the boys voted he continue to accept "tips" in that vocation whenever they were in camp, Bumpus vigorously dissenting, of course.

"Good for you, Giraffe!" exclaimed Bumpus, ready to seize upon the idea without stopping to examine the same in order to find out whether or not it were possible to carry it out. "It ain't half bad," admitted Step Hen. "But how about starting to sea in this blow?" asked Allan, quietly, after he and Thad had exchanged winks.

Gascoyne, followed by his man Jo Bumpus, sped over the rugged mountains and descended the slopes on the opposite side of the island soon after nightfall, and long before Captain Montague, in his large and well-manned boat, could pull half way round in the direction of the sequestered bay where the Foam lay quietly at anchor.

"Is it you, Johnny?" he exclaimed, looking up. "It's meself," said Mr. Tiernan. "And this is Miss Bumpus, a young lady friend of mine from Hampton." Mr. Mulally rose and bowed. "How do ye do, ma'am," he said. "I've got a little business to do for her," Mr. Tiernan continued. "I thought you might offer her a chair and let her stay here, quiet, while I was gone." "With pleasure, ma'am," Mr.

A minute later, and the fat scout cried out in considerable excitement: "I can see land ahead, sure I can, fellows!" "That must be the island, then," rejoined Thad, busily engaged. "Our only hope, so we had ought to call it our island," Davy went on to say, as he deliberately took the glasses from Bumpus, and glued the smaller end of the same to his own eyes.

After the meal was over he sat listlessly on the sofa, like a visitor whose presence is endured, pathetically refraining from that occupation in which his soul found refreshment and peace, the compilation of the Bumpus genealogy. That evening the papers remained under the lid of the desk in the corner, untouched.

"I believe you would, Step-hen," replied Bumpus, calmly; "and by the way, perhaps my knapsack has aired enough by now, so I'll put it in the tent again."

The cliffs here were nearly a hundred feet high. They descended sheer down into deep water; in some places even overhung the sea. Here John Bumpus, having recovered from the stunning effects of the blow dealt him by Keona, renewed his struggles, and rendered the passage of the place not only difficult, but dangerous to himself as well as to his enemies.

Look at it now, and you'll see that it's as steady as anything; yet you can hear the rush of the wind through the treetops just the same. It's turned around as much as twenty degrees, I should say." "And that's bad for the boat, ain't it?" Bumpus wanted to know. "I'm afraid so," the scout-master replied; "because it will get the full force of both wind and heavy seas.

"No, we ought to find out if there really is a little stream flowing into the lake here; and if so the mouth of that same will afford us the safest place to anchor, or tie up." "I agree with you there, Thad," said Bumpus, weakly; but then the fact that he took any sort of interest in what was going on announced plainly enough that he must be recovering.