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Ah, that is just the thing!" as someone standing near threw in a bit of meat which had the desired effect, the mouth of the anemone opening wide to receive it. "Oh, they are very beautiful!" exclaimed Rosie, watching the appearance of the beadlike tubercles of which the captain had just spoken. "Don't they eat anything but meat, papa?" asked Neddie.
And he was just going up and shake paws when Uncle Wiggily cried: "Look out, Johnnie! Wait a minute! That isn't your friend Neddie!" "Isn't it?" asked Johnnie, surprised-like, and he drew back. "No, it's a bad old bear not our nice Neddie, at all! And I think he is going to chase us! Get ready to run!" So Johnnie Bushytail and Uncle Wiggily got ready to run.
Stand together," Blodgett shrieked. With a yell of terror the cook sprang to join the others, and bellowing in panic, swung his cleaver wildly. The man from Boston and Neddie Benson shrank back against the taffrail as a multitude of moving brown figures seemed to swarm about us. Then I saw Roger leap forward, his arms high in air, his hands extended.
I was older than Neddie is now when I married. Neddie ought to get a wife and stop going to see fortune-tellers, and then he wouldn't be so gloomy." Bill would run on indefinitely in his stupid, kindly way, for I was almost the only person aboard ship who listened to him at all, and, to tell the truth, even I seldom more than half listened.
We were all gaunt and unkempt after our hardships of the past two days, but Neddie, poor fellow, looked more like a corpse than a living man and moaned with thirst and scarcely could sit up without help.
Then, all of a sudden, along through the woods came Neddie Stubtail, the little bear-boy, and Neddie had some butter, which he had just bought at the store for his mother. "Oh!" cried the pine tree. "If you will rub some butter on my sticky gum, it will loosen and melt it, so Uncle Wiggily will not be stuck any more." Neddie did so, and soon the bunny uncle was free.
"If you're not out of gunshot in five minutes," Roger cried, "I'll train the long gun and blow you clean out of water." Without more ado they rowed slowly away, growing smaller and smaller, until at last they passed out of sight round the point. "Ah me," sighed Neddie Benson, "I'm glad they're gone. It's funny Falk ain't quite a light man nor yet a real dark man." "Gone!" Davie repeated ominously.
But now that Madge, who is as loud as Tom of Lincoln, is somewhat still, and this same Tyburn Neddie is shaking his heels after the old nag, why, you must tell me what all this is about, and what's to be done for d n me if I touch the girl, or let her be touched, and she with Jim Rat's pass, too."
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