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The sun was just appearing over the row of pines that topped the low mountain range to the east when he packed his kit and blankets under the gunwale in the bow and slipped his canoe into the water. He was about to step in when a voice he had not heard for many days arrested him. "Hello, Duprez! Did you see the preacher pass this way yesterday? He was By the livin' jumpin' Jemima! Barney!"
They had passed the barn with circus posters, and felt colder than ever when they caught sight of the weather-beaten acrobats in their tights. "My gorry!" exclaimed Widow Tobin, "them pore creatur's looks as cheerless as little birch-trees in snow-time. I hope they dresses 'em warmer this time o' year. Now, there! look at that one jumpin' through the little hoop, will ye?"
"Nothin’. I was jus’ funnin’—like Ben said. Then them Rebs started playin’ rough, an’ we jus’ gave ’em a lesson." Fowler snorted. "I say Helms started it, an’ th’ jumpin’ went th’ other way ’round, Sergeant. An’ that’s all I got to say." "Well, it isn’t all I have to say! Sergeant, just what is going on here?" Whoever, having once heard that turkey cock crow, could ever forget it, thought Drew.
An' they isn't a man in this here fo'c's'le, says he, lookin' around, 'that'll say I'd mind. Not one, says he, with the little devil jumpin' in his eyes. "Then she stopped cryin' for good. "'Go ahead, Liz! says he. 'I ain't afeared. Come on! Give us a kiss! "'Motheth Thooth, says she, 'you're the firtht man ever athked me t' give un a kith! "She kissed un. 'Twas like a pistol-shot.
At the last, all three hold-ups lays kickin' an' jumpin' like chickens that a-way, two is dead an' the other is too hard hit to respond. "Whoever does it? Jack Moore, he's that one shiverin' passenger that time. He slides outen the stage as soon as ever it turns the angle of the canyon, an' comes scoutin' an' crawlin' back on his prey.
Now, Don and Dot had plotted all afternoon just what they could do if they had an opportunity to run Jumpin' Jane. They overheard Mr. Latimer's sentence as he passed the little ice-puddle where the twins were sliding, and they looked at each other knowingly. That night, just before the children were sent to bed, Don and Dot crept to the Cookee's bunk and asked for some bread and butter.
Jim wondered what would be best to do bank up the fires in Jumpin' Jane or let them die out and build fresh ones on Monday morning. Deciding to act upon the latter plan, he saw that everything about the great truck and engine was in perfect order, then ran after the men who had started for the clearing.
Take ut aisy, is ut, ye say, whin all the demons in this unholy place is jumpin' on me every minut in places promiscuous till I can't tell where to turn, descendin' an' vanishin' marvelious an' onaccountable? Take ut aisy, is ut? sez I. 'Well, me frind, sez he, 'I can't help ye; that's the marvelious an' onaccountable departmint up the stairs forninst ye.
"Did you do any jumpin' last night?" "No." "That's all right." She seated herself with satisfaction on a log. She looked at the Boy impudently, as much as to say, "When that blot on the landscape is removed, I'll tell you something." The Boy had not the smallest intention of removing the blot.
Don't imagine they teach anything as practical as bookkeepin' up at that school of yours. But you can larn, can't you?" "I I guess so." "I guess so, too. Good Lord, I HOPE so! Humph! You don't seem to be jumpin' for joy over the prospect. There's a half dozen smart young fellers here in South Harniss that would, I tell you that."
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