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It needed another pinch to make Fred Ripley bestir himself properly. He half whimpered in protest, but Prescott was past minding that. Hardly had Ripley gotten his full weight upon the ice than it broke under him. He splashed into the water with a great howl, but alert Dave Darrin hauled in just enough of the rope. Ripley was safe, and could make the next attempt to get out on the ice.
And you needn't cry over your possessions, I'll soon get up a collection, and you'll have better things than you had before." Nevertheless they wept; like homeless wild beasts they whimpered and rambled restlessly to and fro, seeking for they knew not what. Their forest fastness, their glorious hiding-place, was burning! What was all the rest of the city to them?
Like an outlandish doll, with face contorted and thick-lidded eyes shut tightly against the sunshine, the outcast whimpered, too near the point of death for even the rebellion of arms and legs. The woman in the saddle gave a short, incredulous cry. Her face, all gay curiosity, had darkened in a shock of disgust. "What in the world!" she scolded. "Oh!
Of course it only wagged its rear tuft of hair in reply, and whimpered slightly. Refer to its rear tuft advisedly, because, at a short distance, my doggie, when in repose, resembled an elongated and shapeless mass; but, when roused by a call or otherwise, three tufts of hair instantly sprang up two at one end, and one at the other end indicating his ears and tail.
Slowly it withdrew, sob by sob, into whatever great bosom had birthed it, until it whimpered deadly whispers of wrath and as equally seductive whispers of delight, striving still to be heard, to convey some cosmic secret, some understanding of infinite import and value.
Still the girl wept on, wept for Frederick, for Daddy, and once a shuddering thought went through her mind of the Canadian Indian. "He killed the gamekeeper, Ezy says, Daddy Skinner," she whimpered. Suddenly she sat up, her small round face puckered into such lines of pain that the student turned his head away, feeling dangerously near tears.
"Hi! hi!" he shouted. "Horsey, him no goo'! You l'me walk!" Tim whistled and jogged. Tsing Hi jolted and whimpered. The hot miles wriggled slowly past. Dust lay a foot deep on the track. It was a windless day.
And again I saw the menacing negro faces and the burning sunlight and the strange flag that tossed and whimpered in the air above my head, the strange flag of unknown, tawdry colors, like the painted face of a woman in the street, but a flag at which I cheered and shouted as though it were my own, as though I loved it; a flag for which I would fight and die.
We are at her house for our vacation, and to-day we started to go to the woods to have a good time, but we took the wrong path and we are lost, and I have a big sliver in my foot." "Yes, and I stepped on a stone, and have a big bruise," whimpered Jimmie. "And I've cut both feet on a piece of glass," cried Lulu Wibblewobble, "and Oh, we are all so miserable!"
Evan stooped his shoulder, seized the soaked garment, and pulled it back, revealing the features of Polly Wheedle, and the splendid bonnet in ruins all limp and stained. Polly blinked at him penitentially. 'Oh, Mr. Harrington; oh, ain't I punished! she whimpered. In truth, the maid resembled a well-watered poppy.
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