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Updated: May 20, 2025
"Look!" almost shouted Jerry. "He's safe!" Sure enough, the light had flashed out once in the blackness of the night, and then as suddenly disappeared. The boys began hauling in on the copper wire, winding it again on the reel. "Who's next?" asked Frank, as the last of the cable was being re-wound. "Eenie, meenie, minie, mo," Jerry began to count out, when Joe suddenly interrupted.
He is unresolved whether to buy it or to spend the extra shilling on his dinner. Now all you cooks together, to save your business, rattle your pans to rouse him! If within these ancient buildings there are onions ready peeled quick! throw them in the skillet that the whiff may come beneath his nose! Chance trembles and casts its vote eenie meenie down goes the shilling he has bought the book.
The expulsion of Derrick and his nephew is nothing, the happiness of Meenie and her lover is nothing, the release of Gretchen is nothing, there is only a wasted old man, without companions, the long prime of whose life has been lost in unconsciousness, and who, suddenly awaking, looks at us pitifully from the edge of the grave.
His pleading with his child Meenie is not less affecting, and nothing could be more genuine in feeling. Yet all this emotion is attained in the most quiet and unobtrusive manner. Jefferson's sly humor crops out at all times, and sparkles through the veil of sadness that overhangs the later life of Rip Van Winkle.
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