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Updated: June 4, 2025
"Well, but, to come back to the starting-point," said McLeod, "many wise men smoke." "If you say that in the way of argument, I meet it with the counter proposition that many wise men don't smoke." "Hah!" ejaculated Bounce, but whether Bounce's ejaculation was one of approval or disapproval we cannot tell.
Mingled misery and surprise at Jeff's sudden and unaccountable disappearance, prolonged agonies of disappointed expectation, the sickness of heart resulting from hope long deferred, all were forgotten in that supreme moment of joy at reunion with his long-lost human friend! Jeff had to rise and sit down on a shelf of rock to escape some of Bounce's overwhelming affection.
"You didn't take much out of it yesterday when you put old Shanks's wicket down, and he gave you a lick on the head for it." "I don't care if he'd given me a dozen," said the little fellow with a grin. "I took old Bully Bounce's wicket. Oh, didn't it make him wild!" "Yes; but it isn't fair, as I said before," cried the first speaker.
On the beautiful afternoon referred to, the first six individuals above named were huddled together in a promiscuous heap, behind a small bush, in such a confused way that an ignorant spectator might have supposed that Bounce's head belonged to Big Waller's body, and the artist's shoulders to Redhand's head, and their respective legs and arms to no one individually, but to all collectively, in a miscellaneous sort of way.
The artist, who had not dismounted, merely replied by a nod and a smile, and the two reckless youths galloped away, heedless of Bounce's warning not to go too far, for fear they should find something worse than wild-cats there.
Wesley's nag, and the Rector usually rode an old gray named Mettle, but had taken of late to a filly of his own breeding. "I ought to remember Bounce's shuffle," answered Hetty. "Nay, I should have recognised it on the road two miles back if if I hadn't been " She came to a full stop, in some confusion. Nevertheless she was right; and the girls arrived downstairs to learn from Mrs.
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