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Then, lifting his feet with the regularity and slowness of the vibrations of a seconds pendulum, as if counting and measuring one-two-three, holding himself steady against the gusty wind, and giving separate attention to each little step, he gained the foot of the cliff, while I was on my knees leaning over to give him a lift should he succeed in getting within reach of my arm.
"I'm going. But as for you, turning your own kin out of doors one-two-three.... Nay, I'll say no more." "Get out of this, that's all you need to do!" But Oline is not gone yet. The two of them fall to again with words and abuse, a long bout of it again, and when the clock strikes half of the hour, Oline laughs scornfully, making Inger wilder than ever.
"Listen to me; that is much more important. Now then. One-two-three. Now to the right. One-two-three. Now to the left, round the chimney. There now, that was very good. That last flap of the wings was so easy and graceful, that I shall give you permission to fly with me to-morrow to the marshes.
Now, however, since the triumph of the 'New Mode, one must count 'one-two-three, and one's partner is more captious than a schoolmarm! What puzzles me is the need for new steps, to be learned from expensive teachers, when it's so easy to slide down hill in this part of New York.
"If you're going into the wild and lawless life of the peraries with me you got to learn to get things. Jesse James or Morgan's men could get me that axe and that grub, and not make one-two-three of it." "Them guys had practice and likely they never had to go against their stepmothers." "Do I go alone, then?" "Well, now " "Will you or won't you?" Boogies drew a fateful breath.
Smiley he went to the swamp and slopped around in the mud for a long time, and finally he ketched a frog, and fetched him in, and give him to this feller and says: "'Now, if you're ready, set him alongside of Dan'l, with his fore paws just even with Dan'l's, and I'll give the word. Then he says, 'One-two-three git' and him and the feller touches up the frogs from behind, and the new frog hopped off lively but Dan'l give a heave, and hysted up his shoulders so-like a Frenchman, but it warn't no use he couldn't budge; he was planted as solid as a church, and he couldn't no more stir than if he was anchored out.
I did more, I brought upon myself through the local newspapers the handicapping title of "infant prodigy." I can believe that I did astonish my audience, for I never played the piano like a child; that is, in the "one-two-three" style with accelerated motion.
After that I gave up the myst'ry and spent my spare minutes wonderin' if I could do this "One-two-three hold!" business as successful in public as I could while them dancin' school fairies was drillin' it into my nut at one-fifty per throw. That's right, grin!
After luncheon too, I had alternate cold and hot fits, yet still continued to follow our ordinary routine. Several times I began to do so, yet always felt confused in my head, and kept hearing strange noises in my ears. I would begin 'One-two-three and then suddenly go on '-eight-fifteen, and so on, as though I were talking nonsense and could not help it.
Every small pink face with one exception was painstaking and set for duty. It was a conscientious little merry-go-round. "One-two-three; one-two-three glide! One-two-three; one-two-three glide! One-two-th Ha! Mister Penrod Schofield, you lose the step. Your left foot! No, no! This is the left! See like me! Now again! One-two-three; one-two-three glide! Better! Much better! Again!
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