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Ye're a true smith, man: ye hae aye a spark i' yer throat." "Toots! There never was sic a storm o' water sin' the ark o' the covenant " "Ye mean Noah's ark, Peter, man." "Weel, weel! onything ye like. It's a' the same, ye ken.
"I am glad to see you," said the Noah's Ark Lion. "I have been quite lonesome. There used to be a number of us there was a Tiger, a Camel, a Monkey, a Hippopotamus, and, oh! ever so many others, besides the Elephant. But we are all scattered. I am the only one left. Tell me, were you ever in a Noah's Ark?" "I never was," admitted the Lamb. "Is it nice?"
A sturdy, red-faced Englishman, sitting next me, grinned cheerfully and observed: "Trickles down one's neck a bit, doesn't it, sir." I agreed that it did. Hephzy, huddled under the lee of my shoulder, sputtered. "Trickles!" she whispered. "My heavens and earth! If this is a trickle then Noah's flood couldn't have been more than a splash. Trickles!
I know Naboth's vineyard is as painted as Noah's Ark. I know Nathan's ewe-lamb is really a woolly baa-lamb on a wooden stand. That is why I could not take them away. I did not mind so much, as long as I thought of men's things as their valuables; but I dare not put a hand upon their vanities. "After a moment I added abruptly, `Only saints and sages ought to be robbed.
But he could feel that the house was warm, for being out in the cold air was almost like the time he had been tossed from the sleigh of Santa Claus into the snowdrift. "Now I'll have some fun!" cried Joe, as he took the paper off his toy. "Will you please get me my Noah's Ark, Mother? I'll take the animals and have a circus." Joe sat down to a table and placed the Nodding Donkey in front of him.
"No, my lord, but this hotel is such a Noah's ark, that it's no wonder I thought of it." "You're an undutiful dog, not to ask after your mother, sir." "I was about " "I see I see," interrupted his lordship; "but recollect, John, that she still is your mother. By-the-by, have you read the papers yet?" "No, sir," replied I, "there they are," pointing to them on the side table.
Indeed some allow that marvellous things were done, and that there may have been a man named Arthur at the time in which they were done; but here, so far as I am concerned, the distinction becomes rather dim. I do not understand the attitude which holds that there was an Ark and a man named Noah, but cannot believe in the existence of Noah's Ark.
Out of sight of land, at this extremity of both the inhabitable and uninhabitable world, our peopled frigate, echoing with the voices of men, the bleating of lambs, the cackling of fowls, the gruntings of pigs, seemed like Noah's old ark itself, becalmed at the climax of the Deluge.
But, as I say, I am the only one of the Noah's Ark animals left, and really I am very glad to have you to talk to." The two new friends spent some time together telling each other their different adventures, and then, suddenly, the door of the playroom opened and Mirabell came in. "Hush! Not another word!" said the Wooden Lion in a whisper.
"I saw half a dozen women going aboard her this afternoon laden with boxes and trunks everything but the parrot and the monkey. It looked as though they meant to spend the summer aboard her." "Perhaps they do, Mabel," a man's voice answered. "The 'Noah's Ark' is a houseboat. It looked very tiny for so many people, but I thought it was rather pretty."
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