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"Take the fellow next to him there, Harris! behind that stump!" "Let him put up his head a little higher!" said Harris, taking aim. He fired. The rebel dropped, not behind the stump, but beside it. "You've saved him!" shouted Tucket. "That'll pay for Ellis and Jack Winch!" The fire of the enemy in the woods was soon concentrated on Captain Edney's company, which happened to be most exposed.

But there's no one here to take it. No Mr. Blipper or Bob Guess around now." "Well, don't forget, and go off, leaving it hang on the tree," warned his wife. "I won't," said Mr. Bobbsey. A fire was made, and as Mrs. Bobbsey was sitting with her back against a stump, comfortably sipping her tea, she heard the sound of crying.

"Second mate!" bellowed Stump again, calling the heavens to witness that there never was such another, "Where's yer ticket? Seein' is believin', they say. Who did you go to sea with? When did you pass?" "I have no certificate, if that is what you mean, and I have never been to sea," said Royson. This remark impressed Stump as an exquisite joke. His rage yielded to a rumble of hoarse laughter.

"We'll go, we'll go, Billy Bull," said all the other young frogs in chorus. "Better stay home, better stay home," croaked old Grandfather Bullfrog from his seat on a stump by the edge of the pond. "Oh, hear old grandfather croaking!" said Billy Bull; "he never went out of this pond in all his days, and what does he know of the dell?" "Better stay home, better stay home," croaked Grandfather Frog.

I looked around, but nothing was visible but some willow chips, and a half-formed cricket bat which Dicksee was making, by the help of a spokeshave he had borrowed at the wheelwright's, and which promised to be as clumsy a stump defender as ever was held in two hands. "Well," I said, "where is it?"

Being weary and heavy at heart, he was about to sit down upon the stump. Suddenly, it flashed upon his recollection, that this was the stump of Liberty Tree! The British soldiers had cut it down, vainly boasting that they could as easily overthrow the liberties of America.

There was a lock just below, but I seldom went to it because all the drivers were egged on to fight each other during the delay at the locks, and the canallers would have been sure to set them on me for the fun of seeing a fight. On the most eventful evening of my life, perhaps. I sat on this stump, watching a boat which, after passing me, was slowing down and stopping.

And the answer to that question was not so easily found as Tom had observed. They could not roll the stump over; they had no means of cutting through to the prisoner. But, suddenly, that individual settled the question without their help. There was a struggle under the log, a splashing of the water, and then a figure bobbed up out of the shallows.

He seemed cool and bright, with the self-contained force usual for him when something critical is about to happen. "'Ahuh! So you come back, he said. "'Yes, I'm home, replied Jack. "'Wal, it took you quite a spell to get hyar. "'Do you want me to stay? "This question from Jack seemed to stump dad. He stared.

It must have been only a few seconds when the brig rose once more, and looking along the deck I saw that our remaining mast had gone as had the bowsprit, while, besides Mr Harvey, I could distinguish but one man alone on the deck, holding on to the stump of the mainmast. At first I thought that Mr Harvey might have been killed, but he was only stunned, and speedily recovered.