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Miki set up a melancholy wailing when he found himself left behind, and when Challoner looked back the pup was tugging and somersaulting at the end of his rope like a jumping-jack. For a quarter of a mile up the creek he could hear Miki's entreating protest.
I explained it to myself in this wise: A tall, thin young man, resembling the Chevalier de la Mancha, and who perhaps had dressed himself like Don Quixote at the carnival, and the name of his disguise had clung to him ever since; I fancied a silly, awkward youth, with an ugly yellow face, a sort of solemn jumping-jack, and I confess to no desire to make his acquaintance.
Those bridge plans, though Knowing this about his inventiveness, has it not occurred to you that his plans may not have been lost, after all?" "Look here, Mr. Leslie," said Griffith, rising with the angularity of a jumping-jack, "we've rubbed along pretty smooth since we got together last year; but Tom Blake is my friend." "Sit down! sit down!" insisted Mr. Leslie.
"Eleanor," she declared at last, "you're a genius. We could. I can fairly see my friends turning into toys. You and Betty and the rest of the class beauties are French dolls of course. Helen Adams would make a perfect jumping-jack she naturally jerks along just like one." "And Bob can be a jack-in-the-box," cried Betty eagerly, getting Madeline's idea.
Grant had taken to the court of Karague a jumping-jack, to amuse the young princes; but it had a higher destiny, for it so fascinated the king Rumanika himself that he would not part with it unless, indeed, Grant would make him a big one out of a tree which was handed to him for the purpose.
The most interesting, everything considered, is that imbecile, that old fanatic of a Dubief, the man that never drank anything but sweetened water; for he, at least, was shot on the barricades by the Versaillese soldiers. One person of whom the very thought disgusted the two friends was that jumping-jack of an Arthur Papillon.
Well, no one can say that I have added to the shameful waste." Miss Terry tossed the poor jumping-jack on the fire, and eyed his last contortions with grim satisfaction. But as she watched, a quaint idea came to her. She was famous for eccentric ideas. "I will try an experiment," she said.
When there is such a great array of drums and swords and soldiers' caps and guns and bears that jump, it is not an easy thing to select the toy that will please him most of all. Why not buy a train of cars and a track to run it on? But if he bought that, then how could he get along without a jumping-jack that threw up its arms and legs when you pulled the string?
It was a swordfish and he resembled a gunboat with purple outriggers. Slowly he came onward and upward, a wonderful sight. "Wind your bait in!" I yelled to R. C. Suddenly Dan became like a jumping-jack. "He's got your hook," he shouted to my brother. "He's had it all the time." The swordfish swam now right under the stern of the boat so that I could look down upon him.
But at the critical moment there was a jerk, and Flyaway cried out, "I've got a sneeze; but, O, dear, I can't sneeze it." "Why, where's that head of yours, little Tot? I declare, I believe it goes on wires, like a jumping-jack." "My head's wrong side up," said Flyaway, mournfully; "my mother said it was." Mr. Poindexter laughed: it was impossible to be vexed with such a gentle child as Flyaway.
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