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Updated: May 14, 2025
Here the idea becomes reminiscent of our childhood’s “teeter.” Conceiving a long space from foreground to distance, occupied with varied degrees of interest, it is apparent how easily one end may become too heavy for the other. The tempering of such a chain of items until the equipoise is attained must be coordinate with the effort toward the lateral balance.
Teeter was coming across a rich brown field behind his harrow. John Coulson waved his hat. "Hello, Tom, I tell you they lost a fine singer when they made an orator out of you! Give us a shake!" Tom was over the fence in a twinkling, and shaking the newcomers' hands. "Sure it's awful college swells ye're gettin' to be, wid your high collars. Have ye made up yer mind to be a preacher yet?"
They threw water on one another, beat each other with cloth clubs, stuffed with sawdust, which didn't hurt any more than a feather. "And now I will do my great jumping trick!" called Ben, "and then the show will be over. I am going to jump over fourteen elephants and ten camels." At the end of the tent was a long board, which sprang up and down like a teeter tauter.
"I don't see any nest or eggs or anything," said he rather testily. Mrs. Teeter stood up and stepped aside. Then Peter saw right in a little hollow in the sand, with just a few bits of grass for a lining, four white eggs with big dark blotches on them. They looked so much like the surrounding pebbles that he never would have seen them in the world but for Mrs. Teeter.
"Oh, Sarah Emily, don't you hate dishes?" she groaned. "We've got such stacks of them." But Sarah Emily did not hear. Tom Teeter was standing down there between the rows of cabbages, talking to Mr. Gordon upon the "Conscienceless greed and onmitigated rapacity" of certain emissaries of the opposing political party. To all of which his neighbor was responding with: "Well, well. Deary me, now, Tom."
"I love you TWICE as much," declared Alfred, and with that he sank exhausted on the foot of the bed, vainly trying to teeter one son on each knee. When Jimmy gained courage to turn his eyes in the direction of the family group he had helped to assemble, he was not reassured by the reproachful glances that he met from Aggie and Zoie.
Horace was not strong enough to play baseball, and his mamma had forbidden him to play shinney, so he always stayed with the girls at recess, which was often very inconvenient when Elizabeth and Rosie wanted to teeter by themselves or stay indoors and tell secrets. Then, too, John and the Pretender teased her unmercifully. They called her beau "Booby" Oliver and said he should have been a girl.
Fortunately, her two friends did not know until the evening that Eppie, too, was gone forever; but when they did discover it, Elizabeth's grief was not to be assuaged. The next morning Eppie and her grandfather drove away from Forest Glen. Jake Martin had not resorted to the law as he had threatened, neither had Tom Teeter relaxed his vigilance.
They were small Pop began to teeter back and forth and lift his shoulders and pull his beard sure signs of perturbation. "By Christmas, I'll just put up ten dollars on the kid," Pop finally cackled. "I ain't got much to lose but I'll show yuh old Pop ain't going to see the young feller stand alone."
Tom Teeter, who worked the farm upon which The Dale stood, and lived only a few hundred yards from the Gordons. Mr. Teeter was an Irishman, with a fine gift for speech-making. He was much sought after, for tea-meetings and during political campaigns, and had won the proud alliterative name of Oro's Orator.
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