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Updated: May 4, 2025
All along the stretch of tide-flats passengers from the California were wading ashore. The women were being carried pickaback and screamed when their helpers stumbled. It was a comical sight, for several men already had tripped and fallen, and were a mass of mud. A number of men and boys were digging in the mud for clams.
"O, I love you," exclaimed Dotty, "'cause you carry me pickaback; but I wish you knew your letters skippin' about!" The minister and the bridegroom smiled at this absurd little speech, and it was repeated to everybody in the room. Prudy felt very guilty, and blushed like a damask rose, for she knew where Dotty had caught the idea of Colonel Allen's extreme ignorance.
She recovered herself, ran up to Pen, took her hand, and said: "We have played pickaback before now. Get on my back this moment; don't stop to think." "I daren't," said Pen. "Little boy I don't know your name," said Pauline "put Pen onto my back whatever happens." Harry Carver sprang towards Pen. "You must," he said. "She is brave; she is a true heroine. The lions and tigers would love her.
They had three children with them, the smallest o' them pickaback on the biggest; an' it's strange, miss I never could compass it, though I atten' chapel reg'lar how it goes to yer heart I mean, to see one human bein' lookin' arter another!
My father pacified me by taking me on his shoulders and carrying me "pickaback" up and down the shop, and I clung to him in the happy consciousness that I belonged to him, and that he would not let anybody else have me; though I did not feel quite easy until Captain Cross disappeared.
This street, owing to a depression in the level and to bad drainage, was usually flooded, during the rainy season, after every severe aguacero. So impassable did it then become that even men were compelled to engage the services of a cargador to carry them across "pickaback."
William then carried him pickaback for some time, and in so doing he missed the blaze-cut on the trees, and it was a long while before he could find it again; then baby became hungry, and he cried, and little Caroline was frightened at being so long in the wood, and she cried.
Let me turn your face to the light and see if I can recognise the little lad whom I used to carry pickaback across Hatherleigh Water." Sam looked in his face such a kindly good placid face, that it seemed beautiful, though by some rules it was irregular and ugly enough. The Dean laid his hand on Sam's curly head, and said, "God bless you, Samuel Buckley," and won Sam's heart for ever.
His one and only apple he handed over to a puffy urchin whose pockets were already crammed with sweets, and he even carried another youngster pickaback all simply that he might be allowed to stay with the theatre. But in a few moments an impudent young person fell on him and gave him a pummelling. He did not dare even to cry.
"'Haps I did go to aunt Marfie's, mamma; 'haps I was asleep!" "That's right, Miss Topknot," cried Horace; "now your brother'll carry you pickaback." A little while afterward Mrs. Clifford began a letter to her husband. "I am going to tell papa about his little girl that she is very well." "O, no, you needn't, mamma," said Flyaway, laughing; "papa knows it. I was well at home."
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