United States or Malta ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
"I don't think you need expect any such up-shot in this affair," Mr. Perry advised. "Do you expect a villain to show his hand?" Bud inquired. "It seems to me that we have some villains in the plot already." "Who are they?" asked Hal. "How about those sophomores who kidnapped your cousin and marooned him here?" "Oh, they're only play villains," Cub put in disdainfully.
Grumpy was the biggest and fiercest of the Blackbears, and Johnny, apparently her only son, was a peculiarly tiresome little cub, for he seemed never to cease either grumbling or whining. This probably meant that he was sick, for a healthy little Bear does not grumble all the time, any more than a healthy child. And indeed Johnny looked sick; he was the most miserable specimen in the Park.
He called down to her presently. "Andree!" "Yes." "Will you come up for a moment, please?" "Surely." She came up, leaving the room door open, and bringing the cub with her. He called Jacques. "Take the cub to its quarters, Jacques," he said, quietly. She seemed about to protest, but sat back and watched him. He shut the door locked it. Then he came and sat down before her.
He began to move slowly and silently down the branch until he was over the foe, slumbering, twitching his limbs, and making little sounds that told of dreams of the chase, or, more likely, dreams of tormenting a helpless Bear cub. Of course, Jack knew nothing of that. His one thought, doubtless, was that he hated that cur and now he could vent his hate.
For the "cub of West Point" was, like most cubs, irritable when thwarted. And having been balked of his prey, the deserter, and possibly chaffed by his comrades for his profitless invasion of Wynyard's Bar, he had persuaded his commanding officer to give him permission to effect a recapture.
You would not think it now, I dare say, Mary; but this sister of mine was once a very pretty girl at least, I thought so, and so I've a notion did poor Holbrook. What business had he to die before I came home to thank him for all his kindness to a good-for-nothing cub as I was?
"It's settled," he said, and his words had a decisive ring in them. "I've been trying to make up my mind all the morning, and it's made up now. You and Metoosin go on when the horses get their wind. I'm going to ride down there a mile or so and free the cub where he'll find his way back home!" He did not wait for arguments or remarks, and Bruce made none.
The far-drawn cry of the coyotes disturbing him now no more than it did the Wolf Cub listening but unheeding. "I can't help thinking about old Johnny," said Judith at last. "It's going to worry me terribly when I'm by myself again. I should have stopped and taken care of him." "It's not going to worry me," returned Douglas quietly. "The poor old fellow was unhappy and useless.
Then the only other creature who is allowed at the Pack Council Baloo, the sleepy brown bear who teaches the wolf cubs the Law of the Jungle: old Baloo, who can come and go where he pleases because he eats only nuts and roots and honey rose up on his hind quarters and grunted. 'The man's cub the man's cub? he said. 'I speak for the man's cub. There is no harm in a man's cub.
He may remind us a little of the young Mirabeau in his strenuous impassioned youth; in the estimate which those nearest to him, and most ignorant of him, formed of the young lion cub in the domestic litter; in the strange promise which the great career fulfilled.
Word Of The Day