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"Kin you improve on the Perfesser?" "No, but he made only a rough calculation. We'll take it both by levels and by triangulation, using an old sextant of the Professor's. It isn't a diff " "What's try-angleation?" Mr. Hooper was becoming interested. "The method of reading angles of different degrees and in that way getting heights and distances.
He has spent many days on it, and we all have worked hard. It ought to be a success." "Perfesser allers makes things work," declared Washington stoutly. "That's a good way to feel about it, anyway," observed Mark. "Well, we'll soon know." The three hurried to the shed which they could see as they rounded a turn of the path through the wood.
But Sylvia's father understood, "What you want to remember, daughter," he said, addressing himself to his oldest child with a fond certainty of her quick apprehension, "is that fine saying of Emerson, 'What will you have, quoth " A raw-boned assistant appeared in the doorway. "Everybody here, I guess, Perfesser," he said.
"I do," sed he; sayin which he walked up to the cage and sez he, "let's try moral swashun upon the poor creeter." So he put his hand upon the Kangeroo's hed and sed, "poor little fellow poor little fellow your master is very crooil, isn't he, my untootered frend," when the Kangaroo, with a terrific yell, grabd the Perfesser by the hand and cum very near chawin it orf.
"Perhaps he'll be one of these rock-sharps when he gets big," suggested Mr. Mosher humorously. "Wouldn't it be kinda nice to have a perfesser in the family with long hair and goggles? I come acrost one once that hunted bugs. He called a chinch bug a Rhyparochromus, but he saddled his horse without a blanket and put bakin' powder in the sour-dough."
"I want to be near my poor boy's corp," wailed Widow Anne, "and I'm very sorry, Perfesser. I didn't mean to " "But you have, you witch. Go away!" and he stamped. But by this time Lucy had recovered her self-possession, which had been sorely shaken by the sight of the dead. "Leave her to me," she observed, taking Mrs. Bolton's arm, and leading her towards the stairs.
The latter's explanation was far more effectual in letting the light in upon Si's mind than the scientific disquisition of the "Perfesser." He had now a pretty clear idea of what a "grayback" was. Whatever he lacked to make his knowledge complete was soon supplied in the regular way. But Si was deeply grieved and shocked at what Shorty had told him.
Do you have a band up here?" wondered Anne. "Uh-huh fiddle and er banjer, and the feller that plays the banjer kin tear more music out o' it and stomp on the floor harder'n any other perfesser in the mountains. Better come if Paw ain't run you-all out befo' then." "Don't worry, little one. Paw won't run this outfit out just yet," replied Hippy. "I dunno, I dunno. Ain't no tellin' 'bout Paw. Bye."
"I hopes we knocks it clean outen de universe, dat's what I hopes." "We're a great deal more likely to be knocked out ourselves, Wash." "No, sah! Don't yo' believe anyt'ing like dat!" exclaimed the colored man. "I know dis airship. I helped build it, an' it's de strongest one de perfesser eber made. A comet won't be one, two, six wid it.
I quit school when I was eleven, but that ain't sayin' I don't miss it. If I had an eddication now, like you lads is goin' to git, er like the Perfesser has, I'd give more'n half what I own. Boys that think they're smart to quit school an' go to work is natchal fools.
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