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He jumped six feet high into the air and came down with a great flop; then feeling rather ashamed of himself for being frightened at such an insignificant thing as Martin, he stalked majestically away, glancing back, first over one shoulder then the other, and kicking up his heels behind him in a somewhat disdainful manner. Martin laughed, and in the middle of his laugh he fell asleep.
The savage black eyes and the imperious blue ones stared into each other without the least flinching and with something like friendliness. Coronado rode up to the pair and asked, "Is that boy alive yet?" "It's about time for him to flop round," replied Texas indifferently. "Reckon you'll find him in the off hind wagon. I shoved him in thar."
The farmer, in the coming years, when eggs to town he brings, will flop along above the trees, upon his rusty wings. The doctor, when he has a call, from patients far or near, will quickly strap his pinions on, and hit the atmosphere. And airship racing then will be the sport to please the crowds; there'll be racecourses overhead, and grandstands in the clouds.
"What shall we get?" asked Flop. "Well, see if you can get a cabbage or a turnip for me," spoke the old gentleman rabbit, "and for yourselves whatever you like. Here is the money." "I want some sour milk," spoke Curly, for you know piggie boys like sour milk as well as you do sweet. "And I want a corncob cake," went on Flop.
Peggy had never even seen a practice game until taken over to the Naval Academy field with her friends, where the boys teased her unmercifully because she asked why they didn't "have a decently shaped ROUND ball instead of a leather watermelon which wouldn't do a thing but flop every which way, and call it tussle-ball instead of football?" There was a little circle which gathered about Mrs.
Soon the fire was made, and the sudsie-soapy water was boiling the clothes to sort of cook them nice and clean, and Pinky had the clothes pins all ready. Flop had put up the line, after he had brought in the firewood, and Curly was all ready with the wringer. Well, you should have seen Mrs. Twistytail rub-adub-dub the clothes up and down on the washboard.
Nature seemed to have destined him for them, for he immediately made use of the great model with flat boards four feet from the ground, and, balanced thereon, he stalked over the garden like a gigantic stork taking exercise. Bouvard, at the window, saw him stagger and then flop down all of a heap over the kidney-beans, whose props, giving way as he descended, broke his fall.
Just as I got here some of the toys began to slip off the sleigh and I stopped to fasten them on. But I suppose you have your toys all picked out?" "Yes," replied Flop Ear. "I want a toy steam engine, and Curly wants a toy automobile." "Oh, my!" exclaimed Santa Claus, and his voice seemed rather sad. "Why, what is the matter?" asked Curly. "Alas," said Santa Claus.
When the flop, flop of her hoofs had died out, the journalist realized that the day was silent no longer; it was verging into evening. He dropped from the fence and turned his face toward town and supper.
Sit down, Jed, and tell me all about how you found it." Jed hesitated. His hand moved slowly across his chin. "Well, now, Sam," he faltered, "there ain't nothin' to tell. I just er found it, that's all. . . . Say, you ain't seen that new gull vane of mine lately, have you? I got her so she can flop her wings pretty good now." "Hang the gull vane! I want to hear how you found that money.
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