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"Between Lossing and Skipjack siding if we haven't passed the siding in the last two or three minutes. I've been too busy to notice," was the reply. "And you say you were on the engine? Why the devil didn't you call your man down?" "I knocked him down," gritted the superintendent, savagely, "and I'd have beat his face in for him if there hadn't been two of them.
The anchorage was one unbroken mirror, except where its glass like surface was shivered into sparkling ripples by the gambols of a skipjack, or the flashing stoop of his enemy the pelican; and the reflection of the vessel was so clear and steady, that at the distance of a cable's length you could not distinguish the water line, nor tell where the substance ended and shadow began, until the casual dashing of a bucket overboard for a few moments broke up the phantom ship; but the wavering fragments soon reunited, and she again floated double, like the swan of the poet.
The old councillor, who had received three medals for holding his tongue, declared that the Skipjack possessed the gift of prophecy; one could tell by his bones whether there would be a severe winter or a mild one; and that's more than one can always tell from the breastbone of the man who writes the almanac. "I shall not say anything more," said the old King.
Indeed, the only difference is that if I had clapped my hands the grasshopper would have gone off like a skipjack, and after a sky-high leap would have landed struggling among the laurels; while the more I clapped my hands at my visitor, the longer he would have been delighted to stay. My other visitor, who came a day or two later, was a very different type of man.
"Because you are such a good imitation of your father, my dear Johnny," said his aunt. "It is just what my father would say," returned John, taking this as a high compliment; "it would be very foolish of Lucas to give up a certainty for this just because of his Skipjack element, which doesn't want to get into routine harness. Now, don't you think so, Mother Carey?"
Thompson told him, and on the whole, gave a truthful account. "What kind of feller is this Dawson?" the stranger inquired after a moment's silence following the close of the story. "A skipjack of a no-account cow-wrastler," promptly replied Lanpher. "He thinks he's hell on the Wabash." "Allasame he must be old pie to put the kybosh on Nebraska thataway." "Luck," sneered Lanpher. "Just luck."
"Bobus could really have done better than any of us, I fancy, but he would not have fulfilled the religious condition, as sine qua non." "Bobus is not really cleverer than Jock," said Armine. "Yet the Skipjack seemed the most improbable one of all," said his mother. "I wish he were not deprived of it, after all!" "Perhaps he is not," said Armine.
"I know that," said Cecil; "she was uncommonly jolly to me at Eton, and I know my mother and she will get on like a house on fire. We're too old to have a scrimmage about them like disgusting little lower boys," he added, seeing Jock still bristling in defence of Mother Carey. This produced a smile, and he went on "Look here, Skipjack, we will be fellow-soldiers every way.
She sat down on the stairs, all in a heap again with him, and sentenced him to the forfeit of the ship, which he endured with more tolerable grace, because Armine observed, "Never mind, Skipjack, we'll go partners in mine. You shall have half my cargo of gold dust."
The Flea, the Grasshopper, and the Skipjack once wanted to see which of them could jump highest; and they invited the whole world, and whoever else would come, to see the grand sight. And there the three famous jumpers were met together in the room. "Yes, I'll give my daughter to him who jumps highest," said the King, "for it would be mean to let these people jump for nothing."
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