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When her second birthday was passed, Star's education commenced. The process called "gentling," was a complete misnomer for the series of buck jumps, of bites and kicks, with which the young lady received the slightest attempt to touch her.
The railroad was soon to solve the "bad roads" problem for all of them. Short jumps would no longer be necessary; profitable cities could be substituted for the small towns that every circus had to make on account of the distances and the laborious mode of transportation.
"Then he'd already PASSED the house afore you saw him?" said the deputy. "I reckon if it WAS him," returned Sue. "He must have got on," said the deputy; "but then he runs like a deer; it's his trade." "Wot trade?" "Acrobat." "Wot's that?" The two men were delighted at this divine simplicity. "A man who runs, jumps, climbs and all that sort, in the circus."
Every Candidate is required to make two standing jumps of not less than 20 metres. Four attempts are allowed on any one day. Any two Second Class Judges appointed by the Federal Council for Cross Country Ski-ing Tests may judge this Test. Any Candidate who has passed this Test may replace one of the Second Class Judges.
The rustler was pushing along hurriedly, driving the calf at a trot, half the time twisted in the saddle, with anxious eyes to the rear. Revolvers and a rifle garnished him, but quite plainly they gave him no sense of safety. When the summons came to him to "Drop that gun!" it was only a confirmation of his fears. Yet he jumped as a boy jumps under the unexpected cut of a cane.
"Well, Seumaseen and Breedeen, you are good little children, and I like you very much. Health be with you until I come to see you again." And then the Leprecaun went back the way he had come. As he went he made little jumps and cracked his fingers, and sometimes he rubbed one leg against the other. "That's a nice Leprecaun," said Seumas. "I like him too," said Brigid.
Marriage is an affair of give and take, not a circus where one party holds the hoop while the other jumps through and shams dead. We shall be happier later on if we get this clearly into our heads now." What he did say was: "Very well, dear. I'll write and tell her not to come." He knew he was being abominably weak, but he did not care. He even felt a certain pleasure in his surrender.
One of the guard, wishing to favor the escape of Caruthers, struck up a quarrel with Moses Alexander at one door, while his brother, Daniel Alexander, whispered to Mrs. White, if there were any of them within, they might pass out and he would not notice it; in the meantime, out goes Caruthers, and in a few jumps was in the river, which opportunely flowed near the besieged mansion.
Fair play, nerve, poise, agility, act that jumps with thought, the robust fronting of life's challenge these are learned far more on the toboggan slide where you may break your neck, in a snowshoe scamper, than poring over books, or in a parlor. I do not know that Canada has analyzed it out, but she lives it. Young Canada may be bumptious, raw, crude.
I suppose he doesn't want me to be a fright and disgrace his car on the journey. When Miss Hubbell had come in from the next house, smelling of some lovely sort of jam which she and her mother had been making, off we three went in the gray automobile, Mrs. James trying not to look self-conscious and proud, nor to give little jumps and gasps when she thought we were going to run over creatures.
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