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Updated: May 27, 2025
If it was hollow, there was no way of getting into it near the ground, nor was there any ladder by which one might scale the huge trunk to the top. "That's no hide-away," mouthed Chess, his lips close at Ruth's ear again. "And it seems to me the sound doesn't come from overhead." "More as though it came up from the ground," returned Ruth, in the same low voice.
Under the kitchen table there was a row of boots all wrinkled by usage, and each wearing a human and almost intelligent aspect a well-wrinkled boot has often an appearance of mad humanity which can chain and almost hypnotize the observer. As she lifted the boots out of her way she named each by its face. There was Grubtoes, Sloucher, Thump-thump, Hoppit, Twitter, Hide-away, and Fairybell.
The voyage out is like a holiday excursion, for it is only the laying that is arduous, and even that is lightened by excitement. Glimpses are got of hide-away spots, where the cable is landed, perhaps. on the verge of the primeval forest or near the port of a modern city, or by the site of some ruined monument of the past.
They poured out upon the street in the best possible humor, and even at the House of Seven Turnings, as Higgins had dubbed the "hide-away" on Thirty-second Street, they made no disturbance. On the contrary, it was altogether too quiet for most of them, and they soon sought another scene.
"Well, there ain't any Pullmans running to this resort, so I stow away on a coal-burner, but somebody flags me. Then I try to hire out as a fisherman, but I ain't there with the gang talk and my stuff drags, so I fix it for a hide-away on The Blessed Isle that's her name. Can you beat that for a monaker?
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