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Suddenly Grump arose, looked down at the sleeping youth, and then knelt beside him. The colonel briskly brought his pistol to bear on him, and with great satisfaction noted that Tom's muzzle occupied a crack in the front walls, and that he himself was out of range.
Olive was grumpy up-stairs and Claude Locker was in the doleful dumps under a tree, and if these two should grump and dump together, it might be very bad; consequently, Mrs. Easterfield was more anxious than ever that there should be at least two young men at Broadstone.
The chief of the Jolly Grasshoppers was not in the habit of obeying orders, but Grump's hands imparted to his command considerable moral force. No sooner, however, had Broady extricated himself from Grump's grasp than he drew his revolver and fired. Grump fell, and the chief of the Jolly Grasshoppers, his injured dignity made whole, walked peacefully away.
"I hev," quickly answered Grump, who had approached, unnoticed, while the newcomer was being interviewed. Every one started, and Grump's countenance did not gather amiability as he sneakingly noticed the general distrust. "Yer needn't glare like that," said he, savagely; "I sed it, an' I mean it. Come along, youngster it's about the time I generally fry my pork."
"Broady done it," replied Grump, in a hoarse whisper; "he pounded the boy, and I tackled him then he fired." The doubter went around and raised the dying man's head. Pet seemed collecting all his energies for some great effort; finally he asked: "What made you pour your dust into my pouch?"
'Are you? then let me tell you, said the man, contemptuously, 'that you bear the name of being a mean, dirty old scamp; and if it was not for fear of the law, I'd give you a d d good thrashing! Alderman Grump beat a hasty retreat while the crowd set up a loud shout of derision for he was universally hated and despised.
"GRUMP! GRUMP!" said a deep voice from inside the tin can house. Billy Bumblebee peeped through a chink in a window, and saw a hoppy-toad with his mouth full of pancakes. So Thumbkins picked up a pebble and knocked louder. Old Man Hoppy-toad came to the door with a pancake in each hand and another large one in his mouth. "GRUMP! GRUMP!" he said. "Where is Mrs. Thumbkins?"
Round and white it went sailing blandly over the eternal monotony of desert.... Round and white, it lighted up the eternal sameness of life.... He had never noticed it before, but a moon was a poignantly depressing phenomenon. He couldn't help it. A man couldn't make himself be a comedian. It wasn't as if he wanted to be a grump. He would have been glad to be glad.
Grump returned to view; but instead of a knife, he bore another blanket, which he gently spread over his sleeping guest, then he lay down beside Mix with a log of wood for a pillow. The colonel withdrew his pistol, and softly muttered to himself a dozen or two enormous oaths; then he arose, straightened out his cramped legs, and started to find Tom.
"To be sure we will," assented the other encouragingly; "an' that'll be one of the jolliest bits of it all, that we'll spend lots of our time in tryin' to find out things that'll do instead o' other things, won't we? And then hallo! was that a grump?" "It sounded uncommon like one." "An' that's a squeal," said Billy.
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