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"If you run there," continued the seaman, with a look and tone of deep solemnity, "at the very toppest speed that you can do, and look round that ice-point, you will see " "What?" gasped Ippegoo excitedly for he was easily excited. "Something," returned Rooney mysteriously.
And the king got out of his chariot and climbed up to where the queen was waiting for him in the toppest gar " "Don't you tell me they were so domestic and all," Felicia objected. "They probably " "Who's seeing this story?" Ken retorted. "You let me be.
"Um's on the toppest hill," said she, looking at the far-off mountains, reaching up against the blue sky. One mountain was much higher than the others, and on that she fixed her eye. It was Mount Blue, and was really twenty miles away. If Flyaway should ever reach that cloud-capped peak, it was not her wee, wee feet which would carry her there. But the baby had no idea of distances.
"Didn't yun away; I's goin' up to heaven see Charlie," replied Flyaway, suddenly remembering the object of her journey, and gazing around at Abner, Dr. Gray, and the other people, with eyes full of wonder. "Where's the toppest hill? I's goin' up, carry Charlie some canny." The people formed a line, and, as Prudy said, "processed" behind Katie all the way to the village.
'I climbed the ladder to fetch you some cherries, and I'm standing on the toppest stick, Jerry said, craning her neck until her bonnet fell back, disclosing to view her beautiful face flushed with excitement, and her bright, wavy hair, which, moist with perspiration, clung in masses of round curls to her head and forehead.
She walked out to the porch and sat grimly down in a rocker and swayed back and forth energetically. "It's real hot," she vouchsafed presently. "This is a terrible shut-in place. I haven't any use for mountains unless you can get on the toppest peak." "Has that boy explained himself?" asked Levi Markham, also swaying to and fro in his rocker. Matilda shook her head.
They sat on big stone arches, and the topmost one was so high that it stuck up over the city walls, which were quite high enough to begin with. And there were citrons like those you chop up in fruit-cake and grapes and roses. The queen could sit in the bottomest garden, or walk up to the toppest one by a lot of stone steps.
It was exactly a week ago to-day it began, while they were making the birthday presents together, Margaret sitting in this very chair and Nell the Enemy sitting on the toppest door-step. Who would have thought it was coming? There was nothing to warn no thunder in the sky, no little mother-bird on the syringa bush. It just came oh, hum!
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