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Philip was debating whether or not he had better turn back, for the moon was already edging the black ravine with fire, when a camp fire and the silhouette of a lonely camper loomed to the west among the trees. Philip puffed forth a prodigious cloud of smoke and seated himself on a tree stump. "My! My!" said he easily. "Must be our invalid and his rumpus machine.
Skulls enough there are, and since the time when Blumenbach and Camper first called attention to the marked and singular differences which they exhibit, skull collecting and skull measuring has been a zealously pursued branch of Natural History, and the results obtained have been arranged and classified by various writers, among whom the late active and able Retzius must always be the first named.
Next to a good tent, the most important thing for the camper is a good bed.
Her hand was in his: and watching the play of her features, a spark entered General Ople's brain, causing him, in forgetfulness of collar and caricatures, to ejaculate, 'Seventy? Did your ladyship say seventy? Utterly impossible! You trifle with me. 'We will talk when we are free of this accompaniment of carriage-wheels, General, said Lady Camper.
'Ah! Lady Camper sighed dejectedly. 'It is a perfect bijou! 'Oblige me, General, by not pronouncing the French word as if you were swearing by something in English, like a trooper. General Ople started, admitted that the word was French, and apologized for his pronunciation. Her variability was now visible over a corner of the battlefield like a thunder-cloud.
With very considerable difficulty, he first of all started a fire. "Hello! Rather chilly for campin' out yit?" He looked up and saw Ike. "I guess you aint lived much out of doors," continued his visitor, glancing at the apology for a fire, and noticing the absence of everything in camp-making that distinguishes the experienced camper. "No, this is my first camp," said Shock.
Young girls seem to scent, by some mysterious intuition, who is really in sympathy with them, and who is only pretending to be, and bestow or withhold their affections accordingly. In the code of the camp girl classifications are very simple; a camper is either a "peach" or a "prune."
'Really, it never struck me, I say it never struck me before, rejoined the General, smelling it as at a pinch of snuff. 'I was saying, I always . . . And he tacitly, with the absurdest of smiles, begged permission to leave unterminated a sentence not in itself particularly difficult 'I have a nose, observed Lady Camper.
"And it's just like the place where Uncle Jack has his camp!" cried Freddie. "Have the children an uncle who is a camper?" asked Mr. Whipple. "No," answered Mr. Bobbsey, "but there is an old woodchopper, who lives in a log cabin near our town of Lakeport. He makes a living by chopping firewood. He lives all alone, and really sort of camps out. Every one calls him Uncle Jack.
So attentive was she to Elizabeth that the General had it kindly suggested to him, that some one was courting him through his daughter. He gazed at the widow. Now she was not much past thirty; and it was really singular he could have laughed thinking of Mrs. Barcop set him persistently thinking of Lady Camper.
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