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I am far from being in the least down-hearted: indeed I have so much to attend to, that I have little time to myself. I receive great benefit from Alexander, who is as systematic, cautious and careful as ever. I sometimes think he has forgot his old maxim 'Take it easy. I can easily imagine how little Ibe will be stotting about the house and garden.
"Well, then," says this philosopher, "what is to prevent a man making two balloons, flattish, and in the form of wings, which, instead of flying away with him, as ordinary balloons would infallibly do, should be so proportioned to his size and weight as that they would not do more than raise him an inch or so off the ground, and so keep him stotting and bobbing lightly about, something like the bright thin india-rubber balls with which children are wont to play now-a-days?
Mr Cayenne struck the table like a clap of thunder, and cried, "Mr Keekie of Loupinton, and Mr Sprose of Annock, and Mr Waikle of Gowanry, and all suck trash, may go to and be !" and out of the house he bounced, like a hand-ball stotting on a stone. The elders and me were confounded, and for some time we could not speak, but looked at each other, doubtful if our ears heard aright.
Bang! went the other barrel, which the hare acknowledged by two or three stotting bounds and an increase of pace. 'Well missed! exclaimed Mr. Sponge. Away went Ponto in pursuit. 'P-o-o-n-to! shrieked Jog, stamping with rage. 'I could have wiped your nose, exclaimed Mr. Sponge, covering the hare with a hedge-stake placed to his shoulder like a gun.
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