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Updated: May 11, 2025
"Nevertheless," Bristow insisted, "I must go." "About this murder?" "Yes." "Very well!" snorted Mowbray, rising like a jumping-jack. "Go go to the North Pole if you wish. I'm through! I can't treat a man who defies my orders and advice. Good morning, sir." Bristow gave him no answer, and he ran down the steps and threw himself into his car.
She was still as fond as ever of the jumping-jack, but she slily worked its galvanic limbs for the benefit of little children, not for her own O dear no! Eaglenose had also grown during these years into a stalwart man, and his chin and lower jaws having developed considerably, his nose was relatively much reduced in appearance.
She walked leisurely into the cloakroom, though her nerves were a-jerk like the strings of a jumping-jack. "My cousin has asked me to come and fetch her wrap," she explained to a bored attendant. "There's a draught through the dining room. This is her check." The woman accepted it without a word. She presently produced a long wrap of black chiffon, lined with blue. "Number seventeen.
And if he took the jumping-jack, then what about an iron savings bank with a monkey on top that shook his head with thanks when you dropped the money in? Lovely things, all of them, but David put them from him. He did it with decision, but with a nervous haste which told of wavering courage. Such things were not for him. They are only for boys who are not soldier-men.
'Jes' thought I'd buy this fer fun, said he, holding it down to the firelight. 'Dummed if I ever see the like uv it. Whoa! he shouted, as the cover flew open, releasing a jumping-jack. 'Quicker n a grasshopper! D'ye ever see sech a sassy little critter? Then he handed it to Elizabeth. 'Wish ye Merry Christmas, Dave Brower! said he. 'Ain't as merry as I might be, said David.
Then he danced in front of her, swung his arms like a jumping-jack, and told some outlandish fairy story from the stock that no one had ever suspected he possessed. "Can you stand on your head?" asked Nellie, rippling over with fun.
At last we saw it was a stiff-jointed quadruped with some sort of jumping-jack on top, bouncing up and down at every step. As it drew closer, heading for the shop, Ida Mary began to laugh. "It's Alexander Van Leshout," she said. The cartoonist scrambled down from his mount and led the old, stiff-jointed, sway-backed horse up to the door.
If I'd prayed differently yesterday I wouldn't have been looking for for somebody all to-day, and be a jumping-jack to-night for fear I won't find him. Did did you ever have a sweetheart, Mr. Damanarkist?" Before answer could be made Mother McNeil's house was reached, and with steps that were leaps Carmencita was at the door, and a moment later inside.
Before Bilby could reply or anybody else could speak, Copley came to his feet with all the suddenness of a jumping-jack. Bilby squealed and started back, falling against the gruff man who had followed him into the cave and who was evidently the boatman. "What's this?" ejaculated this man. But that was all he said. The Chinamen squealed in unison, and that was all from them.
Having seen a toy of this kind during one of his visits to the settlements of the pale-faces, the Blackfoot youth had made mental notes of it, and on his return home had constructed a jumping-jack, which rendered him more popular in his tribe especially with the youngsters than if he had been a powerful medicine-man or a noted warrior.
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