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The weather still continued fine and clear, with the sun shining on the water and a bright blue sky overhead; and as the boat glided along, heeling over to the wind every now and then and tossing the spray from her bows as she came down with a flop on the crest of some little wave which got in her way, Frank wished that he and Kate could glide on so for ever.
Run!" called Uncle Wiggily to Curly and the little piggie boy did run, and, after some trouble, he got safely home with his big apple and the meal, but Flop was there ahead of him. "After this," said Uncle Wiggily, when he came up to the piggie house, "after this, Curly, don't take such a large apple, and you can run better when a fox chases you."
Hurry now, I think I hear the bell ringing!" "All right," answered Curly. "Come along, Flop." You see, he sometimes called his brother Flop, for short. So they kissed their little sister, Baby Pinky, good-by, and went on to school. As they hurried along, they met Jackie Bow Wow, the puppy dog boy, and Curly said: "Oh, Jackie, where is my pencil you borrowed?"
"Mew, mew," screamed the seagulls; "creak, creak," went the cordage; "flop, flop," went the sails; round went the white basins, and the steward with the mop; and few passengers would have cared to have gone overboard, when, at the end of three hours' misery, the captain proclaimed that they were running into still water off Boulogne.
"Ah, you old death bird, so you think you are going to get me, do you?" shouted the indignant castaway, as the bird looked at him with unpleasant anticipation. "Well, you're not. Not if I have to shoot you." With a heavy flop of its wings the carrion bird soared slowly away toward the west as the sailor fairly shouted his defiance.
This rather interrupted the work of the office as, whenever the Assistant-Resident turned to any employee to ask how far such and such a place might be distant, or the tariff of carriages, etc., the person so addressed, no matter how engaged, would, before reply, immediately flop on to his knees.
Directly after, the whistle was repeated from outside, and, as Aleck produced it once more in trembling tones, the lads leaped to their feet, for, coming as it were right along the surface of the water, as if through some invisible opening, there came the welcome sound: "Ship ahoy! Master Aleck a " suck suck flop flop a whisper, and then something like a sigh.
Why, man, when you set thar last night an' told that woman that her undyin' love for Dick was holy an' godly an' a thing to be kept in a glass case an' looked at every hour in the day I say when you throwed all that guff at her you sealed yore doom. Them words kicked every prop from under her, an' down she come with a flop that knocked the breath out of all her calculations.
"That means I've got to go," thought Curly, as he looked around to see if his tail was still kinked into a little twist. "I'll have to go because Flop is off playing ball with Bully the frog. Well, there's no use getting cross about it," so, giving a cheerful grunt or two, just to show that he didn't at all mind, Curly ran around to the back door and said: "What is it, mamma?
When I once get these things on, David, I'll be like a bird trying its wings, I'll flop about just as helplessly." "I'm awfully glad to see you, Tom," said Grace, "I did not expect to see you until Easter." "Oh, I couldn't keep away," laughed Tom. "This is the jolliest place I know." "Good reason," said Reddy, "we are the real people." "Stop praising yourself and listen to me," said Hippy.
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