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Updated: May 26, 2025
And away the Rocket ball flew towards the dead chestnut tree, up, up, by the old crow's nest, and plop! right in the nest it dropped. And Dicky came racing home, and Marmaduke not far behind him, his face red with excitement and his eyes shining. And how the team cheered him now, and patted him on the back, and said "Good boy, Mary!" again, and how happy he felt!
The voice seemed to come out of that very same hemlock-tree. Everybody noticed it and looked up at the tree, and while they were all trying to see Sticky-toes, something dropped plop right into their midst. It was Sticky-toes himself, and he had dropped from another tree altogether. "You hear it!" he shrieked, dancing up and down he was so angry. "You hear it! It isn't me, is it?
Plop, plop, plop; ting, ling, ling; bell and horse-shoes, horse-shoes and bell, until the colossal figure of C. J. Fox in a grimy toga spelt Bloomsbury Square with my watch still wanting three minutes to the hour. "What number?" cried the good fellow over-head. "Trentotto, trentotto," said my guide, but he was looking to the right, and I bundled him out to show the house on foot.
So Boxer never forgave the scratch on his nose, nor yet Mrs Puss's boast that he was afraid of her; so he walked softly along the wall, and on to the tool-shed, and with one bouncing leap came down plop upon the treacherous old grimalkin. "Worry-worry-worry-ur-r-r-ry," said Boxer, as he got hold of Pussy's thick skin at the nape of her neck, and shook away at it as hard as he could.
The lazy flapping flight of large blue and black morpho butterflies high in the air, the hum of insects, and many inanimate sounds, contributed their share to the total impression this strange solitude produced. Heavy fruits from the crowns of trees which were mingled together at a giddy height overhead, fell now and then with a startling "plop" into the water.
He went up-stairs, and she followed, looking first into the dining-room again. At least that was right. Surely Frank was a master. At seven the plop of the feet of carriage-horses was heard, and a moment later Louis, the butler, was opening the door.
There would be the plop of turtles falling into the creek and the slither of alligators in the mud, and all of a sudden not a ripple would start, and between the clacking of one reed and another would come the soundless lift and stir of the Swamp snoring. Then the hair on your neck would rise, and some man caught walking alone in it would go screaming mad with fear.
We decided to make a quick dash as soon as the light was strong enough for accurate work. "I don't care if the old thing'll go or not," Terry declared. "We can run her to the edge, get aboard, and just plane down plop! beside our boat there. Look there see the boat!" Sure enough there was our motor, lying like a gray cocoon on the flat pale sheet of water.
"And you are not afraid?" I stammered. "You do not dislike the idea of going?" She lifted her head and looked me in the face, the big amber eyes shining softly in the moonlight. "I dread it," she said quietly. "It is foolish to say so, but " She stopped speaking and turned her face away from me. In the little silence that followed I heard the plop plop of the waves against the side of the yacht.
It suggests the plop of a raindrop into the lake. And the sound behind us now could not be mistaken. The mother of my little innocents was coming. I hated to frighten her, and through her to destroy their new confidence; so I hurried back to the den, the little ones running close by my side.
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