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"Hi toboggans!" he was heard to ejaculate at intervals during the next ten minutes. "Sally," said Uncle Timothy Rudd, "up in New Hampshire, where I used to live before I came to stay with your family, there is an attic full of old furniture which belonged to my father. I have never disposed of it, because certain associations made me have an affection for it.
It may be that the neglect of their duties by Hi and Ho, and their punishment, influenced Chinese astronomy; or that the succeeding records have not been available to later scholars; but the fact remains that although at long intervals observations were made of eclipses, comets, and falling stars, and of the position of the solstices, and of the obliquity of the ecliptic records become rare, until 776 B.C., when eclipses began to be recorded once more with some approach to continuity.
The workmen came in crowds on their way either from or to the polling-booths, and some were collected and accompanied thither by eager comrades. One man would shout to another across the road through his hollowed hand: "Hi, Petersen! I suppose you've voted?" Everywhere there was excitement and good humor: the city was to be taken!
About a half-mile from Gresham's he caught an advancing gleam of white on the highway ahead of him and pulled to the side of the road, waiting until the State Police car drew up and stopped. In it were Mick McKenna, Aarvo Kavaalen, and a third man, a Nordic type, in an untidy brown suit. "Hi, Jeff," McKenna greeted him, as Rand got out of his car and came across the road.
"By this!" interrupted the Scotsman, shaking the wretched Hi Wing Ho terrier fashion. "By Hi Wing Ho," explained the detective, "whom you see before you. The theft was a very ingenious one, and the man succeeded in getting away with his haul. He tried to dispose of the diamond to a certain Isaac Cohenberg, a Singapore moneylender; but Isaac Cohenberg was the bigger crook of the two.
Besides," she added, sadly, "Hi's as much interested in this thing as I be. If the farm's got to be sold, it puts Hi out of a job." "Oh, very well," said the real estate man, and he drew a rather soiled, folded paper from his inner pocket. He seemed to hesitate the fraction of a second about showing the paper. It increased Hi's suspicion this hesitancy.
There would be room on the top of the boxes they did not reach within two feet of the tilt. Should he ask for a lift, when the carter came out of the "Marquis"? Or should he, if he could, climb up and hide on the boxes and take his chance of discovery on the lift? He laid a hand on the tail-board. "Hi, Dickie!" said a voice surprisingly in his ear; "that you?"
"This will relieve your thirst," he said, handing the white, moist mass to Emma. "Oh h h h!" gasped Miss Dean. "This is heavenly." To each of the others Hi gave a handful of pulp. "Nectar straight from Heaven," murmured Elfreda at her first taste.
If you see him, give him a shot to make him stop!" and shouting in this vein, Bart turned to retrace his steps back to the bridge. He was somewhat out of wind by the time he had half mounted the abrupt bank that served as the base for one end of the bridge. All at once he heard a sound that electrified him. It was the cranking of the car! "Hi, Jim! here he is! Come back!
Hi stood still for a moment trying to recall where he had seen the flash of her weapon. "It must have been about where I am standing now. Hi Lang suddenly disappeared from sight. The guide had fallen into a crevice in the rocks, a crevice that had been hidden by dwarf shrubs and mountain grass, and it seemed a long way to the bottom.
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