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He looked across at the child, who was situated as before at the table, her crossed feet, in their spring-heeled shoes, dangling beneath. "May I smoke, Jewel?" he asked, as he took a cigar from the case. He asked the question humorously, but the reply was serious. "Oh yes, grandpa, of course; this is your room; but you know nobody likes tobacco naturally except a worm." Mr.

It seems to me now a curious chance, as well as a piece of good luck, that the two most eloquent of the company in Louis Stevenson's Talk and Talkers should have come to us on our Thursday nights, for Bob was the Spring-Heeled Jack, "the loud, copious, and intolerant talker" of that essay just as Henley was the Burly. He was not more spring-heeled in his talk than in evading capture for it.

When it is said that the list included such widely diverging creatures as "A camel-leopard, a duck-billed platypus, Thomasina Bolderston, and Spring-heeled Jack," it can be imagined with what zest the pupils began their replies.

She fitted her spring-heeled tan shoes into the prints, and proved at once that they were not hers. Nor did King's shoes fit exactly, though they came nearer to it than Marjorie's. "Yes, sir; some fellows came along and stole that wood. Here are two or three quite different prints." "Well, where do they lead to?" said practical Marjorie. "That's so. Let's trace them and get the wood back."

When I turned, here's him fleein' in the Sands wi' his fingers in his lugs, like spring-heeled Jeck. I tell ye, that man winna heed a single wird I say till him. Oh, wheesht! When Sandy's on for doin' something special, he nearhand aye mak's a gutter o't some wey or ither.

The Persian antelope seems to be a duplicate of his distinguished American relative in a general, all-round sense; he is, if anything, even more nimble-footed than the spring-heeled habitue of the West, possesses the same characteristic jerky jump, and hoists the same conspicuous white signal of retreat.

For it was as if some bland maternal cow out of the pasture had skipped with a hop and a circle of flying skirts into a ballroom or a butterfly of two hundred pounds' weight had taken to flitting from flower to flower. And this Katrin talked in a quick, light voice, with ups and downs and skips and quivers in it, as spring-heeled as a chamois goat on the mountains of the south.

And he would tell the most extravagant tales, he would confide the most paradoxical philosophy, the most topsy-turvy ethics, with a fantastic seriousness, never approached except in the Arabian Nights of Prince Florizel for the puppets of whose adventures, as for Spring-Heeled Jack, he was the sitter. It was a delightful accomplishment, but dangerous when applied to actual life.

The page is dull; it is so easy to lighten it with some flash of witty irrelevance: the argument is long and tedious, why not relieve it by wandering into some of those green enclosures that open alluring doors upon the wayside? To roam at will, spring-heeled, high-hearted, and catching at all good fortunes, is the ambition of the youth, ere yet he has subdued himself to a destination.

But the soil was softer here than elsewhere. Clearly marked upon it were the imprints of little high-heeled shoes. "It seems to take us back to the days of 'Spring-heeled Jack," my friend continued; "which was before my time! I don't think that mystery was ever cleared up?" "No," I replied, meeting his questioning glance; "it never was, satisfactorily. Therefore the analogy is an unfortunate one.