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When they have had a minute or so at the chief altar, they scramble up, and filing off to the chapel of the Madonna, or the sacrament, flop down again in the same order; so that if anybody did stumble against the master, a general and sudden overthrow of the whole line must inevitably ensue. The scene in all the churches is the strangest possible.
"Yes, sir, he keeled right over and gosh, how he did flop around! It was a fit all right. I bet he died, too, because he went limp all at once. He acted like he'd seen a ghost. He yelled, 'What did you give him? to the other fellow. What did he call him?" he asked Beany. "I heard him call some name." Porky's elbow went sharply into Beany's ribs.
"I'll roll you the bones, one flop, twelve thousand dollars or nothing, sir," he challenged. "But if I win " "You want to know if I am in a position to support you all for one year if I lose? I am. There are cattle enough on the ranch to guarantee that." "Well, while these little adventures are interesting, Mr. Farrel, the fact is I've always made it a rule not to gamble."
He supposed that he was all alone, and no one had seen him land, but he was surprised when a voice near him cried out: "Look out! What are you trying to do?" There was a flop in the water, and when Bumper turned he saw a queer looking fish swimming toward the shore, using his hind legs instead of fins to propel him along. He had big, staring eyes, and a green head, with white under his throat.
That individual would reply: "All right. Attention! LEFT SPOON!!" and the whole line would at once flop over on their left sides. The feet of the row that slept along the east wall on the floor below us were in a line with the edge of the outer door, and a chalk line drawn from the crack between the door and the frame to the opposite wall would touch, say 150 pairs of feet.
They looked, and there, in front of a sort of cave, that was made in one of the upright piles of corn, stood the little mousie girl who had been pinched by the stone on her tail. "In here!" she cried. "Quick, before he comes, and he won't know where you have gone!" "But he'll know we're hiding in the corn," said Flop. "Quick! Get inside and talk afterward!" said the mousie girl.
On the whole he thinks not; so he hides the key in a crevice, and whistles a tune. Now enters a cockatoo, waddling along confortably and talking to himself. He tries to enter into conversation with the magpie, who, however, cuts him dead, and walks off to look at the prospect. Flop, flop, a great foolish-looking kangaroo comes through the house and peers round him.
And with that he started to throw Flop out of the window, but the little piggie boy cried: "Oh, what shall I do? Will no one help me?" "Yes, of course. I will!" answered a voice, and then that queer object, which Flop had thought was a stone, began to move.
"Of course, we can get along all right," spoke Flop. "We'll have our lunch and, we'll do the dishes, so you can go and play Scotch checkers with Pop Goes the Weasel." "But what are Scotch checkers?" asked Curly. "Oh, when you play that game," said Uncle Wiggily, "you have a nice Scotchman standing near you all the while to cook Scotch scones over a hot fire.
It was a fatal manoeuvre, for Macco's noose was immediately let drop, and quickly drawn over the head of poor cuscus, who in vain tried to liberate himself with his claws. He was now a captive, and Macco, keeping the noose tight, descended the tree. Cuscus held on by his long prehensile tail; but Macco pulled and pulled, and down the animal came with a flop to the ground.
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