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"All hands on deck!" commanded Harriet, after the last of the work had been finished. "That reminds me. We must elect our officers," said Miss Elting, after the girls had climbed to the pleasant upper deck. "Whom shall we have for our captain?" "I gueth Harriet will make a good captain," suggested Tommy. The girls agreed to this.
"Girls, don't move! We do not know what has occurred. Does any of you know where Mr. Grubb is?" "Yeth. He ith right here. I jutht touched hith whithkerth," answered Tommy in a weak, plaintive little voice. "I gueth he ith dead." The guardian clambered from the rear of the carry-all. The lantern had been extinguished by the shock.
Lady Caroline Lamb I never saw, but from friends of mine who were well acquainted with her I have heard manifold instances of her extraordinary character and conduct. I remember my friend Mr. Harness telling me that, dancing with him one night at a great ball, she had suddenly amazed him by the challenge: "Gueth how many pairth of thtockingth I have on."
Instead of the supplies that had originally been stowed in the pack, a choice assortment of stones, chunks of granite, small hardheads and pebbles rolled out on the floor. They were speechless for the moment. Janus tugged nervously at his beard, too thoroughly astonished for speech. "I gueth thomebody hath been throwing thtoneth at uth," observed Tommy Thompson.
In this position Harriet drew her in. The pitcher was rescued before they helped the little girl to the deck. "Ith thupper ready?" demanded Tommy, after getting aboard. "Yes, it is and it's getting cold," answered Harriet. "Then I gueth I'll thit down and eat." "Not until you get off those wet clothes," answered Jane. "How did you come to fall overboard?"
"No, darlin'. We didn't suppose anything of the sort. But knowing so much, please tell us how we are to get ice from the lake in the good old summer time? Answer me that question, will you now?" "That ith tho," reflected Tommy. "Really, I hadn't thought of it that way. I gueth I wath too previouth." "Grace!" rebuked Miss Elting, "I am amazed at your using such expressions.
Why, you could swim all night, if necessary, and be up in time for six o'clock breakfast just the same." "Breakfatht. It will be fithh for breakfatht for Tommy Thompthon, I gueth. Fithh, Harriet, fithh," mumbled Grace, then ceased swimming. "Fithh!" "Poor girl, she is about done for!" muttered Harriet Burrell.
I don't like to see you at meals with your hair down; you girls are too old for that." "Yes, Miss Elting," answered Harriet. "I gueth I'll cut my hair off. It ith too much trouble to fix it every morning," decided Grace. "But, Mith Elting, couldn't I fix it the night before and thleep in it?" "Certainly not! How can you suggest such a thing?"
"Well, then, we've had double evidence," spoke up Ted Burgoyne; "and I gueth that ought to thettle the matter. Ith our Hen that was dragged up by the heelth. Elmer, will it pay uth to try and follow the trail?" "Hardly just now, at any rate, Ted," the other told him. "We might aim to do something of the kind in the morning. But even here it looks as if they headed for the swamp.
"Might have been a bird or something. Doesn't take much to startle a horse when he's asleep. I've known a partridge to fly up before a sleeping horse and cause the animal to break away and rip things up generally. You'll find, if you find at all, that it was something like this skeered Jim's nags." "I gueth it wath a two-legged bird," observe Tommy wisely.
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