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She could hardly brook the delay until the evening, and even wondered whether it were not a wife's privilege to anticipate the hour; but she did not venture, and only hovered about impatient for Jumbo's summons. She came in with a rapid movement that led Mr. Belamour to say, "Ha, my fair visitor, I perceive that you have some tidings to bring to-day."
But Hugh said: "It was not really not quite so bad as Patricia makes it, sir. Rough at times, of course, but, on the whole, clean." "Clean," cried Patricia, "what about Jumbo's swing at Snoopy?" "Oh, well, Snoopy had the puck, you know. It was a little off-colour, I must confess." "And now, Daddy," said Patricia, going at her father again, "we all want to go down to the dance.
It appeared to be a living skeleton covered with a black skin of the most ghastly appearance, and came staggering towards them like a drunken man. As it drew nearer Jumbo's limbs trembled more and more violently and his face became of a leaden blue colour.
But the watchful Jumbo had seized Ware's wrist with both hands, and returned to the big fellow the compliment of the Straight-Ann Leverage and the Flying Mere which had been so fatal to himself in the first bout. Ware's fall was not nearly so far as Jumbo's had been, and he managed to bridge and save himself. Before Jumbo could settle on his chest, Ware was out of danger.
"Jumbo's getting real big," said Sue, as she watched the largest of the pets. "And Judy is growing," added Bunny. "I wish we had had these 'gators when we gave our show." "Yes," agreed his sister. "Well, maybe we can have another show. Or we could put the alligators in a store the next time we play." "Yes," said Bunny. "Only maybe you couldn't wrap up a 'gator in a piece of paper.
Teddy's face wore an appreciative grin, Jumbo's long ears lying as far back on his head as they would reach. To the ordinary observer it might have been supposed that the mule was angry about something. On the contrary, it was his way of showing his pleasure. When a pan of oats was thrust before Jumbo, or he chanced upon a patch of fresh, tender grass, the ears expressed the animal's satisfaction.
Aylward, considering; then with a shade of polite contempt, "O! Jumbo's fiddle! I did not know it could be heard in your room, but no doubt the windows below are open." "Is Jumbo that black man?" asked Aurelia, shuddering; for negro servants, though the fashion in town, had not penetrated into the west. "Mr. Belamour's blackamoor. He often plays to him half the night."
"My dear mother learnt the tune abroad. And I believe that she herself made the English words, when she was asked what the nightingales say." "May I hear it? Nightingales can sing in the dark." Refusal was impossible, and Jumbo's violin was a far more effective accompaniment than her own very moderate performance on the spinnet; so in a sweet, soft, pure, untrained and trembling voice, she sang
Jumbo's account had certainly the effect of raising their value in the estimation of the new arrival. Jumbo informed them that the chief's name was Ibraim, that he resided in the northern part of the country, towards which they were forthwith to set out. Soon afterwards Jumbo on his return to their cell burst into tears. "What is the matter?" asked Stephen.
"Ah! dat one fine country, only little too hot sometimes for lily-white skins;" and Potto Jumbo grinned from ear to ear, as if congratulating himself that his own dark covering was impervious to the sun's rays of that or any other region. Potto Jumbo's chief friend was an English seaman Roger Trew by name.
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