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Updated: May 5, 2025
But just then crack! crack! crack! three musket-shots flashed out of the thicket. Merry tumbled head foremost into the excavation; the man with the bandage spun round like a teetotum and fell all his length upon his side, where he lay dead, but still twitching; and the other three turned and ran for it with all their might.
A skewer passed through the three points and prolonged to the sky at either end would represent the earth's axis and the sun's daily course. A round teetotum revolving on its point represents the sky turning on its axis, the two points of the teetotum are the two poles; the child will be delighted to find one of them, and I show him the tail of the Little bear. Here is a another game for the dark.
"Oo-oo-ooo! Boo! See me reverse!" It seemed to be what the owl was saying to the maidens as he turned the tables on them again and again with that teetotum trick of his swivel neck. But he did not scream any more or offer the least objection when the merle took him to her tender breast, cooing reassurance. "There! you've got a new singing teacher, Jess a little screech owl. Little!
As the train steamed out of the station, she howled like a wounded animal, spinning round like a teetotum, and waving her hands and arms wildly. Her hair had tumbled down her back, and her eyes seemed to be melting, so freely did she weep ... and then when the train had disappeared round a bend of the track, she dried her eyes and went home.
'Are you a child or a teetotum? the Sheep said, as she took up another pair of needles. 'You'll make me giddy soon, if you go on turning round like that. She was now working with fourteen pairs at once, and Alice couldn't help looking at her in great astonishment. 'How CAN she knit with so many? the puzzled child thought to herself. 'She gets more and more like a porcupine every minute!
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