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"The children have enjoyed it. Thank you!" "Um!" grunted Mr. Blipper. "Here you, Bob!" he roared. "Come and shut off this steam. We're going to travel!" He climbed up on the seat, and Bob, after hanging the water pail on a hook beneath the truck, shut off the engine. The organ ceased playing, and the trucks containing the merry-go-round lumbered off. "Good-by!" called the Bobbsey twins.
It is a quadrangular ditch, blackened by smoke and coal dust, hemmed in by crumbling walls and heaps of rubbish. As he reached the edge of this depression, the rag-dealer stopped and pointed out to Manuel a hovel standing next to a broken-down merry-go-round and some swings, saying: "That's my house; take the cart down there and unload it. Can you do that?" "Yes, I think so." "Are you hungry?"
For a while they left their glasses and danced with the rest to the strident music of the merry-go-round organ. It was long after midnight when Garron paid his score under the tent. She had told him much in the meantime there was no one to care whom she followed. She told him, too, she had come to the fête from a hamlet called Les Forêts, where she had been washing for a woman.
A house-boat belongs to the merry-go-round family, that's what Mr. Ellsworth says. That night we kept the boat tied up to the dock in Poughkeepsie and took a hike around the town, while Mr. Ellsworth tried to find somebody who would tow us up to Catskill Landing. When we got back, he said he had been talking with a man who had a little steam yacht and would tow us as far as Catskill Landing.
This dark depression attracted Manuel somehow or other, with its rubbish heaps, its gloomy hovels, its comical, dismantled merry-go-round, its swings, and its ground that held so many surprises, for a rough, ordinary pot burgeoned from its depths as easily as a lady's elegant perfume phial; the rubber bulb of a prosaic syringe grew side by side with the satin, scented sheet of a love letter.
But if we can defy these Merry-Go-Round Mountains to stop us we won't mind the sacrifice of some of our comforts." "No one knows where we're going to land!" remarked the Lion, in a voice that sounded as if he were going to cry. "We may not land at all," replied Hank; "but the best way to find out what will happen to us is to swing across, as Scraps and the Woozy have done."
From a distance the mountains appeared indistinct and seemed rather small more like hills than mountains but as the travelers drew nearer, they noted a most unusual circumstance: the hills were all whirling around, some in one direction and some the opposite way. "I guess these are the Merry-Go-Round Mountains, all right," said Dorothy. "They must be," said the Wizard.
This has been the settled policy of nature for many centuries, and it was so ordered for the benefit of Pee-wee Harris. When the Merry-go-round Island floated leisurely against the Skybrow lawn the tide had been flowing out for about an hour. When this same rechristened island broke loose disguised as an earthly paradise, the tide was in a great hurry.
No adjectives of praise could sweeten that. Small wonder she pouted! And she found the competition terrific. She had thought that when she got into the upper world she would be on a sparsely populated plateau. But she said to Jim: "Good Lord! this is a merry-go-round! It's so crowded everybody is falling off." The most "exclusive" restaurants were packed like bargain-counters.
The Washington Merry-Go-Round No flying saucer report in the history of the UFO ever won more world acclaim than the Washington National Sightings. When radars at the Washington National Airport and at Andrews AFB, both close to the nation's capital, picked up UFO's, the sightings beat the Democratic National Convention out of headline space.
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