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On hearing the general orders, he discharged a tempest of veteran, soldier-like oaths, and dunder and blixums swore he would break any man's head who attempted to meddle with his tail queued it stiffer than ever, and whisked it about the garrison as fiercely as the tail of a crocodile. The eelskin queue of old Keldermeester became instantly an affair of the utmost importance.
The prolonged snore which was steadily issuing from the throat of the sleeping parent, terminated in a sharp, explosive grunt. As his eyes opened, the boys scrambled away like frogs to the opposite side of the lodge, under the protecting care of their mother. "Dunder and blixen! You dunderin' Dutch Indians, dishturbin' your poor old dad dat is wearing his life out for you!
For the Higginbothams an old Saxon family, as the name evidently denotes had once possessed lands in that very county; and the captain, during his visits to Hazeldean Hall, was regularly in the habit of asking to look into the County History, for the purpose of refreshing his eyes, and renovating his sense of ancestral dignity, with the following paragraph therein: To the left of the village of Dunder, and pleasantly situated in a hollow, lies Botham Hall, the residence of the ancient family of Higginbotham, as it is now commonly called.
He felt his face redden as they approached each other. To hide his embarrassment he swung his little hickory switch gayly and called to his dog Dunder that was nosing about by the roadside. Dunder bounded forward, spied the newcomer, and leaped toward her playfully and with natural canine curiosity. Bella screamed. She screamed and ran to Ben and clung to him, clasping her hands about his arm.
"Dunder and blitzen!" swore Peter Alrichs, "hast thou lost all our provision and made fools of us, too?" They struck the dunce's cap off Nanking's head with their staves, and threw their beer in his face. "Two hundred guilders are we out of pocket," cried both these great men. "Was ever such a brainless dolt in our possessions?"
Not a game that he cared for, but still one to be played if his master fancied it. Ben stooped, picked up a stone, and threw it at Dunder, striking him in the flank. "Go on home!" he commanded, sternly. "Go home!" He started toward the dog with a well-feigned gesture of menace. Dunder, with a low howl, put his tail between his legs and loped off home, a disillusioned dog.
After submitting to this infliction for a considerable length of time, an exclamation escaping from Caspar drew upon him the attention of the others. "Dunder und blitzen!" cried he; "what have we been thinking about all this time? The three of us sitting here choking with thirst, and a river of water within our reach!" "Within our reach?
This belief was further strengthened by a glimpse which he caught of a heavy branch upon the ground. "Hebens, golly! dat you, ole swill-barrel?" greeted his ears; and he picked his hat and himself up at the same time, to see the negro, Cato, lying on the ground, with his heels high up in the air. "Dunder and blixen! who are you?" inquired Hans, more astonished than ever.
As the reading progressed, Bobby thrilled more and more at the cumulation of the interest. St. Nick's cry to his steeds: " Now Dolly, now Vixen! Now Feather! Now, Snowball! Now Dunder and Blitzen!" brought his heart to his mouth with excitement that culminated in that final surge: "To the top of the house, to the top of the wall, Now dash away! dash away! dash away, all!"
"Why, what is the difficulty, Sergeant?" "I am vounded vare I sets me down on der saddle. I am all vot you calls it? rare. Dunder, but it could not be." "I am exceedingly sorry, Ebers, and if you are unable to travel we shall be compelled to leave you behind," I said, tired of it all by this time. "Get the men to their supper. We shall go on in an hour."
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