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They're almost as big as the giant redwoods of California, and yet they were bowled over as if they were tenpins." "I wonder if the wind did it or the earthquake," ventured Mr. Damon. "No wind could do that," declared Ned. "It must have been the landslide caused by the earthquake." "The wind could do it if the ground was made soft by the rain; and that was probably what did it," suggested Tom.
Mounds and pyramids of jumbles and iced cakes abounded. They were too tempting to be long looked at without tasting, and the boys helped themselves gladly. "A long, sweet strain from a bugle called them away from this delightful spot, and on a broad, smooth field they found bats and balls, tenpins and velocipedes in short, everything a boy could want to play with.
Alas! what multitudes of sad souls have walked out of this hopeless mood into a life-long insanity, when all they needed in the first place, perhaps, was a dose of blue pills, or half a dozen strings of tenpins, or a sea-voyage sufficiently rough for "practical purposes."
The pigmies, who guard the palace of the king of the world underground, came in their gay dresses. There were three of them, and they brought in their hands balls of gold, with which to play tenpins, but they were not allowed to have any games while the meeting was going on.
"Say, Merry, old man," said Harry, "I know Browning was the leader of this job, although he was disguised. They seemed to feel pretty bad because you got away. They got twisted took me for you at first, and by the time they discovered their mistake you were knocking them around like tenpins. One chap insists you broke his jaw." "Well, I am glad I did that much. I didn't mean to leave you, Harry.
He found the Army Boys looking with great interest at a spade which they held out to him as they approached. "Here's a souvenir, old boy," grinned Billy. "It's the one you lammed into the Huns with," explained Bart. "My, but that was a mighty wallop. They went down like tenpins." "I guess it gave them a headache," laughed Tom. "I know that I put all my weight behind the blows."
The foremost assailant leaped quickly upward, but at the top he met the sudden sword that he had not expected the quarry had been unarmed before. With a cry, the man toppled back upon those behind him. Like tenpins they rolled down the stairs. The ancient and rickety structure could not withstand the strain of this unwonted weight and jarring.
He had rebelled against the austerities of Fast- and Thanksgiving-Days. He had learned to play at cards and to roll tenpins with the village boys. He had smoked in the tavern bar-room of evenings.
They don't run things over in France like they do here; they make Counts an' Markusses an' Bankers out of the bad men, an' slap the innocent ones into dungeons to keep 'em from gettin' spoilt. But this didn't suit Monte for a minute; so when he gets the gang all settin' up in front of him like a herd o' tenpins he sez, "Let her go!" an' you ought to have seen 'em drop.
They went sprawling like tenpins before the ball as Ben jumped in among them and mowed them down with his powerful blows, while Jack, hovering like a torpedo boat around a battleship, sent in several of the telling blows Ted had taught him during the boxing lessons at Moon Valley.
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