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When I was a boy larnin' to shoot, sais father to me, one day, 'Sam, sais he, 'I'll give you a lesson in gunnin' that's worth knowin'. "Aim high," my boy; your gun naterally settles down a little takin' sight, cause your arm gets tired, and wabbles, and the ball settles a little while it's a travellin', accordin' to a law of natur, called Franklin's law; and I obsarve you always hit below the mark.
"You're right, Seth," declared the scoutmaster, "it is a balloon, and it looks to me right now as though there's been trouble for the aeronaut. That gas-bag has a tough look to me, just as if it had lost about half of the stuff that keeps it floating! See how it wabbles, will you, fellows, and how low down over the trees it hangs. There, it just grazed that bunch of oaks on the little rise.
Since it has been found that the axis of the earth wabbles, stupidity is indispensable as a standard of constancy. In order that the list of able women may be memorized for use at meetings of the oppressed sex, Heaven has considerately made it brief. Firmness is my persistency; obstinacy is yours. A little heap of dust, A little streak of rust, A stone without a name Lo! hero, sword and fame.
"Pink and white scenery with yellow curls," jeered Ellery. Dick made no reply and Ellery went on. "She has a young man already. You can't go and take her away from him. That wouldn't be playing fair." "The man with her is an oaf. He has a loose mouth that wabbles when he opens it to pick his teeth."
All his facts are most curious, and the exclamation, "how fearfully and wonderfully we are made," may be extended to the ugliest tadpole that wabbles in a ditch till he is a frog, and the microscope invented by that creature man endowed with Luckily a hair in my pen stopped me, or I might have gone on to another page, in my hot fit of enthusiasm. To MISS RUXTON. EDGEWORTHSTOWN, Sept. 1835.
But 't ain't no good. I gits a holt oncet, but the water backs up behind us an' we goes a-scootin' down on a big wave that sloshes out o' the flume on both sides an' sends us flyin' toward that Horn fer further orders. "When we gits to the sharpest curve we knows we're there all right. She wabbles on one side an' then on the other, so I can see chunks o' sky ahead right under her.
"Well, you do that," agreed Dimple. "And Bubbles can set the table." "Why doesn't this apple go right?" said Florence. "It wabbles around so and there! it has gone bouncing off to the other side of the kitchen; how provoking!" "It is a sort of 'skew-jawed' one," pronounced Dimple. "I can never do anything with those on the parer.
Two minutes elapsed, three minutes, five minutes, not another shot; but it might commence again at any moment, and I stood at a respectful distance from the danger, uncertain what course to pursue for the recovery of my traps, all of which, rifle, snow-shoes, and tobaugan loaded with spoils, lay in pledge with the two-faced friend whose treacherous shelter had no longer any charm for me, when I beheld several sleighs approaching us from the town at a fearful pace, in the foremost of which, when within range of rifle, I recognized Old Wabbles, the commandant.
The section from the north end of the bridge to the railroad station has a grade that wabbles between 50 and 500 feet to the mile and jerks back and forth sideways as though laid by a gang of intoxicated men on a dark night. When the first engine went over it everybody held his breath and watched to see it tumble.
I admire it when it stands firmly upon its legs, and I love it when it wabbles. But when it gains power with increasing odds, grows big with obstacles, I worship it. "To thrill with the joy of girded men, To go on forever and fail, and go on again With the half of a broken hope for a pillow at night " Thus it should have been.
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