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Updated: June 14, 2025
He stumbled over taut hawsers and piles of dunnage, tripped on crazy guy-ropes and insanely planted pegs, and fell again and again upon frozen dumps and mounds of hoarded driftwood.
"You'll need plenty to eat, old fellow, for the storm is going to be a long and cold one." Then Prescott ran back at full speed to his chums who were erecting the tent. First, the four corner stakes were driven, and the guy-ropes made fast. "Greg and Dan can drive all the other pins, if they hustle," Dick announced.
Surely men can't get away with tents without leaving some trail." Within two minutes they had the trail. Marks were discovered that plainly had been made by dragging canvas and guy-ropes along over the ground. "We'll find our stuff soon," predicted Tom, striding along over a rough trail.
It swayed and strained at its guy-ropes, the poles creaked and cracked, and in less time than it takes to tell it, the whole flapping structure had gone down with one ballooning heave, flat upon the ground, covering its inmates with billowing canvas. Then came a terrific clap of thunder and a flash of the fiercest lightning Sally had ever seen.
That practitioner puts on his specs an' looks me over with jealous care. ""Whatever's wrong with him, Doc?" says my father. ""Nothin'," says the physician, "only your son Willyum's five inches out o' plumb." "'Then he rigs a contraption made up of guy-ropes an' stay-laths, an' I has to wear it; an' mebby in three or four weeks he's got me warped back into the perpendic'lar.
Down in the shallow creek sat Grant, blinking up at them in bewilderment, as he wiped the water from his eyes. "What's the matter?" asked Howard, as Mr. Burnam helped the boy to scramble to his feet, and up the steep bank of the stream. "Wish you'd whitewash those guy-ropes!" responded Grant petulantly. "I tripped over 'em, and they landed me in that squdgy old creek.
He did not say much when he arrived, and he did not do anything more threatening than hang the handkerchiefs over the guy-ropes to dry, tying the corners to keep the wind from whipping them away up the coulee, but the result was satisfying to Happy Jack, at least. He ate and was filled, and Patsy retired from the fray, sullenly owning defeat for that time at least.
Here is one spreading its sheet over a large cluster of rock-roses; it is the size of a handkerchief. A profusion of guy-ropes, attached to any chance projection, moor it to the brushwood. There is not a twig but supplies a contact-point. Entwined on every side, surrounded and surmounted, the bush disappears from view, veiled in white muslin.
The top of the outer arena wall must itself be fifty feet high, and the pole in the centre of its oval seemed to rise fifty feet higher yet. At its base an immense net was stretched, and a man in a Prince Albert coat and a derby hat was figuring about, anxiously directing the workmen who were fixing the guy-ropes, and testing every particular of the preparation with his own hands.
Opening the largest blade of his pocketknife, Fred cut one of the guy-ropes. He passed around the tent, cutting each one in turn, until the canvas shelter fell over in a white mass. "Won't they be sore, though?" laughed Fred maliciously, as he started to carry off the camp supplies. Gr-r-r-r-r! Gr-r-r-r!
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