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"Educate the children, so that they can lay hold of the long end of the rope, instead of the short end," said the doctor, with a little giggle. "Ay, that's it," said Brewitt. "I've pulled at th' short end, an' my lads may do th' same." "A selfish policy," put in the landlady. "Selfish or not, they may do it." "Till the crack o' doom," said Aaron, with a glistening smile.
In the stillness which brooded over the land during day and night alike the only sound they ever heard was the sharp crack of a branch breaking beneath its burden. They had lived in this still world of snow and forest for some weeks, and had seen and heard nothing of men. "This frost cannot last," said the prince.
And this, then, was to be the disaster that his old professor had foreseen for him: the crack in the wall, the crash, the cloud of dust. And he could not understand how it had come about. He felt that he himself was unchanged, that he was still there, the same man he had been five years ago, and that he was sitting stupidly by and letting some resolute offshoot of himself spoil his life for him.
"They are all ready," Cora told her friends, as the man on the bench who held the pistol allowed it to glimmer in the sunlight. The next moment a crack rent the air and the boats shot off. For some moments no one spoke. All attention was riveted on the graceful canoes that so motionlessly covered the deep blue lake.
Captain Wells sprang into the air. "My God, they've got a cannon!" Then there was a martial chorus the crack of rifle, the hoarse cough of horse-pistol, the roar of old muskets. "Bing! Bang! Boom! Bing bing! Bang bang! Boom boom! Bing bang boom!" Lieutenant Skaggs and his reserves heard the beat of running feet down the Gap.
There was a slight whistle, followed by a loud whistle, from the engine, which noisily puffed out its first jet of steam, while the wheels began to turn a little, with a visible effort, and Rivet left the station and went to the gate by the side of the line to get another look at Rosa, and as the carriage full of human merchandise passed him, he began to crack his whip and to jump, while he sang at the top of his voice: "How I regret My dimpled arms, My well-made legs, And my vanished charms."
The water started from a crack in the cliff which some loving hand had enlarged into an arched cavity. Graven over it in bold Hebraic letters was the word GOD. The graver had no doubt drunk there, and tarried many days, and given thanks in that durable form.
On the right of the leading hounds are three crack members of the Surrey, Messrs. B e, S bs, and B l, all lads who can go; while a long way in the rear of the body of the pack are some dozen, who, while they sat on the hills, thought they could also, but who now find out their mistake.
I echoed. "Yes, my friend! He ees call the 'cobblestone, also the 'pouding-stone, when he ees at his home in the country. He ees also a small 'boulder. I pick him up; I crack him; he made three separate piece of conglomerate sandstone. I bring him home to my wife in my pocket. She rejoice; we are happy.
No words could be caught, but the air ran trippingly, and if the higher notes broke in a crack which told of age or misuse, or both together, the lower ran clear and full, and the tune ran on with a rollicking, careless awing which showed that, whoever might cavil, the singer had at least one appreciative hearer himself!
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