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"They never let us out of the cages." "And a good reason, too," declared a humpy camel, near by. "If they let you lions and tigers out of the cages, you'd run away. We wouldn't do that. We camels are well-behaved, like the horses and the elephants." Leo, the old lion, shook his head until his mane dangled in his eyes. "No," he said, "if they opened my cage, I wouldn't run away.
The whole troop, hundreds of horned heads and humpy backs, massed and seethed together. It was as if an irresistible force from behind impelled them all forward in a pack. She stood still and watched the black wave of cattle, fascinated, appalled, her heart beating thickly. No, they could not stop now. Nothing could stop them, except some great obstacle which they could not pass.
"Why can't we go ashore in that?" asked Amy, her face brightening. "Because it will be so humpy!" explained Betty. "We could not run the auto ice boat over the bumps. But really it might be worse; I'm not fooling." Their situation was indeed peculiarly fortunate considering what had happened. The warm weather had softened the ice, and the melting of much snow had caused the river to rise.
The Hopper grinned, proud of his success, while Mary and Humpy viewed his efforts with somewhat grudging admiration, and waited patiently until The Hopper took the wholly surfeited Shaver in his arms and began pacing the floor, humming softly.
A genuine Spanish mountain, great humpy undulations of rock and sand, gigantic cacti for all vegetation, a lurid sky behind, but not over-colored. A group of Roman soldiers in the foreground, in the rear the hill, and the executioners busily employed in nailing the three victims to their crosses.
He took care of his aged mother, married the twenty-first wife of Giant Blubb, now a widow, and was always kind to the sick and poor. To-day in Cornwall, they still tell stories of the big fellow who abolished Giant Blubb's toll gate. Many are the places in Wales where the ground is lumpy and humpy with tumuli, or little artificial mounds.
"I was sitting on the bank where it goes down a little to the river, and the ground there was humpy with bunches of grass. A little bird like this Warbler ran from between two of the grass humps and picked about on the ground for a minute and then ran back. I thought he had gone into a hole, but pretty soon he came out again and flew up through the bushes to a tall tree a little way off.
For miles in any direction, nothing but humpy moorland was to be seen, a gathering of low hills, with now and then a higher one, its sides broken by occasional torrents, in poor likeness of a mountain.
Toadie, the squat brute, with the front teeth; Whitey, the albino, peering and prying; One-eye, Humpy, Bandy and the rest all labelled like dogs from some physical deformity. Once and for all they slew in the boy's mind the Romance of Crime. Death indeed; death in life. He read it in their faces. Yes; it was all true.
"A dip!" moaned Mary as he described the seizure of the purse in the subway. "You hadn't no right to do ut, Hop!" bleated Humpy, who had tipped his chair against the wall and was sucking a cold pipe. And then, professional curiosity overmastering his shocked conscience, he added: "What'd she measure, Hop?" The Hopper grinned. "Flubbed! Nothin' but papers," he confessed ruefully.
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