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It was most unpleasant to see the guide's horse straining and scrambling, looking every now and then as if about to fall over backwards. My horse went up wisely and nobly, but slipping, jumping, scrambling, and sending stones over the ledge, now and then hanging for a second by his fore feet. The higher we went the narrower and worse it grew.
Mollie was not a Patrol Leader for nothing; she had learned to be diplomatic, and now she turned the conversation: "Where are those parcels?" she asked. "The parcels! Goodness me, I forgot them! How could I do such a thing!" Prudence exclaimed, jumping up from the green chair and rushing into the hall, followed by Mollie; Grizzel sat on in sulky dignity, trying to look uninterested.
Learn to jump off high cliffs into deep water, so that, should the opportunity ever offer, you may be able to plunge off the high bulwarks of a vessel to save a sister, or mother, or child, with as little thought about yourself as if you were jumping off a sofa. Observe, we do not advocate recklessness.
Had he been obliged to leave the country, I am sure he would at least have written to me Is it possible that my father can have intercepted his letters? But no that is contrary to all his principles I don't think he would open a letter addressed to me to-night, to prevent my jumping out of window to-morrow What an expression I have suffered to escape my pen!
And all the while the burglar-fox was banging on the door, and crying out: "Let me in! Let me in!" "Quick! is the lantern ready?" Asked Uncle Wiggily, jumping around in a circle like "Ring Around the Rosie." "Here it is," said Nannie. So the rabbit gentleman took it, all nicely made as it was, and inside of it he put a hot, blazing candle.
We thanked him for his self-denial, and I was about to propose leaving True with him, when the dog settled the point by jumping in. John and I shoved off, and paddled on with all our might. Now that we had fewer people on board, we made much better way than before, and floated buoyantly over the mimic seas which met us. We had marked the direction of the object we had seen.
It was not pleasing to have the greatness of his idol explained on unscientific principles. He did not like that idea of the jumps. Jumping sounded unscientific, and what could be worse than to say of a man that he was not scientific? Preposterous to say the greatest things of science were achieved by unscientific methods! To-day Dr. Hubers had been all afternoon alone in his laboratory.
The story of the robbery attracted everybody, and during the excitement the colonel slipped quietly out, and opened the door of the stage. The old lady started, and cried: "George!" And the colonel, jumping into the stage, and putting his arms tenderly about the trembling form of the old lady, exclaimed: "Mother!" Excitement?
"O that nasty brute! Mynheer Vanslyperken, how dare you bring him into my house?" cried the widow, jumping up from the sofa, with her full-moon-face red with anger. "Indeed, widow," replied Vanslyperken, "I left him on board, knowing that you were not fond of animals; but some one has brought him on shore. However, I'll find out who it was, and keel-haul him in honour of your charms."
I said: "I wish I knew how to play on a real fiddle, don't you?" Naphtali made no answer. After a little he said: "You must think it is the bow that does the playing, don't you?" "What else does it?" I asked, perplexed "It's the fingers of the other hand, those that are jumping around." "Is it?" I did not understand, but I was deeply impressed all the same.
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