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The moment Jeb was hailed, however, the noisy girls ran out to look over their horses. "Why, Jeb! Isn't Noddy going this time?" asked Polly. "Not ef you-all want her to keep any breath in her skin. Ain't she eena-most done up from that other trip?" retorted Jeb, who was the "general-man" on the ranch.
Cairy nursed his injured leg with a disgusted air. "Don't sniff, Tommy, there are lots of men who would like to be in your shoes." "I know.... Oh, I am not ungrateful for my daily bread. I kiss the hand that found it, the hand of power!" "Silly! Don't be literary with me. Perhaps I put the idea into old Noddy Gossom's head when he was here the other night.
Innumerable birds of a noddy kind made this island their resting-place; so that we had reason to flatter ourselves with hopes of getting supplies in greater abundance than it had hitherto been in our power. Our situation was at least four leagues distant from the main.
They were bound for Franchard, to collect plants, with an eye to the "Comparative Pharmacopoeia." A little rattling on the open roads, and they came to the borders of the forest and struck into an unfrequented track; the noddy yawed softly over the sand, with an accompaniment of snapping twigs. There was a great, green, softly murmuring cloud of congregated foliage overhead.
Then if there was a fence at the bottom and he checked at all, I was apt to shoot forward, and in such event we went over the fence in a way that reminded me of Leech's picture, in Punch, of Mr. Tom Noddy and his mare jumping a fence in the following order: Mr. Tom Noddy, I; his mare, II. However, I got in at the death this time also. I was fond of walking and climbing.
"It may be a cold day for somebody before we get through," was all Jerry replied. "You haven't the ghost of a show," called one of Noddy's companions. "You'll think you're standing still when we start." The others laughed at this joke, and Noddy seemed pleased.
"Poll, Jeb will shore say you used witchcraft on the burro; he said Noddy was done for being buried under that slide the way she was." "Noddy would have been done for if Jeb had had her in charge; but she just couldn't refuse to live, with me right here calling her back, you know. She loves me so, she had to listen to my voice," explained Polly, with suspicious moisture in her big blue eyes.
I stay here to watch." Jean-Marie did as he was bid, though not without surprise. The noddy was brought round to the spot indicated; and the two gradually transported the treasure from its place of concealment to the boot below the driving-seat. Once it was all stored the Doctor recovered his gaiety. "I pay my grateful duties to the genius of this dell," he said.
It looked as if it was going over, and a cry from the spectators showed that they, too, anticipated this disaster. But, with a sharp wrench of the steering wheel, Noddy brought the car back toward the center of the track. Jerry swung around the turn at reduced speed, and, because of the chains, his machine did not skid more than a few inches. "Good thing you have those chains on," commented Tom.
"That's all right," sung out the steersman good-naturedly. "Beat that other one, if you can." "We're going to try!" yelled Ned, above the noise of the exploding cylinders. They were on a straight stretch then and, as Noddy looked back and saw the red car closer to him than it had been before, he put on more speed.
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