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And when the sorting was over, each had nine of the little gray ones, which the Toyman told them were called "Migs"; two of the dappled brown ones which he said were "Croakers"; and two of the blue; three "Chineys"; three "Glasseys" with the pink and blue streaks; and one each of the most beautiful of all, the agates.
No one knew what the trouble was or how to stop it, so they waited to see what happened. It didn't sound as if the ceiling was going to fall but as if the banging came from outside! It was several migs before they knew the cause. "When a large section crashed to the ground, it was a complete surprise, and caught the inhabitants unprepared.
Now, if you migs the two style' well 'ow's that, Mistoo Itchlin, if you migs them? Seem' to me I dunno." "Why, don't you see?" asked Richling. "If you mix them, you avoid both necessities. You sail triumphantly between Scylla and Charybdis without so much as skinning your eye."
Richling reflected with downcast eyes. "It seems to me," he said, when he had passed his hand across his mouth in apparent meditation and looked up, "seems to me I'd conclude both, without delay." "Yes? But accawding to what fawmule, Mistoo Itchlin? 'Ay, 'tis theh is the 'ub, in fact, as Lawd By'on say. Is it to migs the two style' that you advise?"
"Then I'll go around with you while you go through the events of a day in camp. O, I think it's the grandest idea!" she interrupted herself in a burst of rapture. "We'll get the stunt prize as easy as pie. The Avenue will never be able to think up anything nearly as good. How did you ever manage to think of it, Migs?" "Why, it just came all by itself," replied Migwan modestly.
"Good idea," replied Agony enthusiastically. "Get all the Winnebagos together and let's sing her some of our own songs, the ones we've practicsed so much together at home. You bring your mandolin, Migs, and tell Hinpoha to bring her guitar. Hurry, we'll have to do it fast to get back for lights out."
The generators for heat, light and controls, were turned by discharge through the tubes. At least one blast must be fired at all times to keep the controls sensitized, and develop power for emergency equipment. The other tubes were silenced. During the rest migs Dick couldn't sleep, but spent every minute talking to John McCarthy. There must be some solution and they had to find it!
It was twenty-seven hours in length, but they all thought of it as a day. Each lix was divided into thirty-six "migs." Each mig being just forty-five minutes in length. They were able to keep track of each mig, by their watches, although the time pieces were useless for any other purpose. One lix, Dick returned the friendly smile of a member of the crew, and to his amazement the man spoke.
Anyway, before long, the Toyman's pile was growing less and less, while Marmaduke had nine gray marbles we should say "migs" one "chiney," two brown "croakers," one blue "croaker," and one "glassey," and his shooter, the "pure," of course. And Jehosophat had ten "migs," two "chimneys," one "glassey," two brown "croakers," and one blue one, and his shooter.
Pretty good lil' nest-egg, eh? But now you got to find her some other place." "That don't belong to me," said the old man indifferently. "Aw don't be bashful! I onderstan' now what you los'. You dig here there migs up the scent. I just happen to step on that stone ring him, so, with my boot-heel!" "That ain't my pile," the other persisted. "I started to build a fire on that stone two nights ago.
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