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Updated: June 10, 2025
Neither neither was it the voice of the nickum, so much Pemrose knew, as she edged coldly a little away, a little nearer to the dim and sighing lake-edge. Yet he was among them, those gaudy big boys, whose flare of color merely striped the cave-dusk, like the dingy markings upon the snake's squirming back.
But under cover of the broad scolding, the other, the Jack at a Pinch friend in need for the second time had again slipped off, without a word from either of the girls. "Bah! he is a nickum a mysterious imp," snapped Pemrose, the fire that smoldered behind her white face leaping up. "Can't be shyness with him; he doesn't look the least bit shy!
"I wonder if he's getting that off now? Una! Una! It's He ... He!" "Who? Who?" "The man the boy who saved us after the train-wreck ... without whom we mightn't be here now! Ah-h!" was the softly tremulous answer, as the blue eyes danced down the rock, with frankest recognition, friendliest expectation, to that daring, nonchalant nickum figure, now coolly drawing up its toes for a climb.
"Come oot o' the gutter, ye nickum!" cried, in harsh, half-masculine voice, a woman standing on the curbstone of a short, narrow, dirty lane, at right angles to an important thoroughfare, itself none of the widest or cleanest. She was dressed in dark petticoat and print wrapper. One of her shoes was down at the heel, and discovered a great hole in her stocking.
But but when it comes to finding out anything about either of them, gee, you might as well whistle jigs to a milestone so-o you might!" "Across the lake in golden glory, The fairy gleams of sunlight glow. Another day of joy is ending, The clouds of twilight gather low." Another day of joy, indeed! Without peril of rattlesnake or marplot nickum to spoil it!
As for the inventor's daughter, her joyous relief was now a hop and now a dance, anon a pine-caught hullabaloo, as she gleefully turned her back upon the Devil's Chair and nickum memories her face to the glowing sun of sisterhood. "Camp Fire sisters! Camp Fire sisters! Was ever such luck?" she cried. "Oh! come, let's find them let's join them."
The patrol leader's preoccupied eyes were on the boat edging vaguely nearer to the wharf, with its one "nickum" figure, so nonchalantly rowing, so absorbed in the rainbowed sheet upon its knees that at this moment it awkwardly "caught a crab" and almost suggestively lost an oar.
Well! the sky was in Pem's eyes, of a truth, now, enough blue to make a Blue Peter, the flag of embarking, the flag of adventure; no rudeness of "nickum", earthbound, boastful, could ever humiliate her again, with Toandoah's emblem in her heart.
"My certy! but 'twas pretty to see yon merle, though!" he murmured, having restored the kettle to sanity. "Fine it minded me, ma'am, o' the time when I was a boy, huntin' like a nickum for the nests o' mavis an' merle blackbird an' thrush when I'd rise 'wi' lark an' light! Fegs!"
"Hoot! lassie, an' air ye sech a fechless tomboy that a mon mun keep his een sticket on ye a' the time?" the Scot angrily demanded. "How cud ye be sech a nickum as to try sitting in yon Deev's Chair?" "Ask ask the other nickum; he did it first," flung back the rescued one.
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