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"We'd freeze to death here in the winter time, because it gets awful cold, they say," Step Hen continued. "Why, we could walk over the ice, and get ashore," Davy suggested. "Guess the old lake don't freeze over solid any time; it's too big, ain't it, Thad?" Giraffe went on to say.
"Bad mackerel!" grumbled Captain Hamilton, finally climbing out of his last pit. "This looks as if we'd been handed a rotten deal from a cold deck." Tyke looked up from his work, and began: "Mebbe that Now, if I was superstitious Oh, well," he went on hastily, "you can't expect to find a fortune in a minute."
"Yes, we know them, and we'd like to meet them," answered Roger, dryly. "Well, I dunno where they went Abe didn't say an' it wasn't my business to question 'em," returned Dick Logan. "Looked to me like the elderly gent was some kind o' a school sharp." "He used to be," answered Dave. "And we all were under him." "Oh, I see.
Then we'd have a chance to come to every hop." "Wouldn't we want to put in a part of the winter near West Point?" asked Miss Bentley, smiling, though with a wistful look in her eyes. "Perhaps that would be fairer, to you," Belle agreed. "You'd soon get tired of the hops," ventured Dave. "Can one ever weary of dancing?" Belle demanded.
If we tell them how two men stuck us up, we're going to look a lot of goats. I For one think we'd better keep the number to ourselves, or, better still, we might say that there was a big party of them."
"See," continued Roy, "there's the slope; you see it is very steep; we'd go down it like a streak of greased lightnin'; but I don't like to try it." "Why not? It seems easy enough to me. I'm sure we have gone down as steep places before at home." "Ay, lass, but not with a round-backed drift like that at the bottom. It has got such a curve that I think it would make us fly right up into the air."
The mist was lifting in truth, and yellow spears of sunlight were thrusting themselves through like hat pins run through cloth. "It'll be the better part of half an hour before the place's clear," he asserted, with one eye cocked at the sky and the other watching me. "In the meanwhile we'd better go back to Miss Drummond and set her mind at rest," I suggested.
"What would you have said," demanded the Boy, "if you'd hung the wrong man?" "Said?" echoed McGinty. "Why, we'd 'a' said that time the corpse had the laugh on us." A couple of hours later Keith put an excited face into his shack, where the Colonel and the Boy were just crawling under their blankets.
"I guess His Royal Highness is about to appear," said Tom grimly. "Yes, maybe we'd better kneel, too," spoke Ned. "Not much! We're citizens of the United States, and we don't kneel to anybody. I'm going to stand up." "So am I!" said Mr. Damon.
It's no odds to let them varmints behind gain on us a little. You needn't think about them. When the danger comes we shall want every ounce of our strength." For half an hour they paddled steadily on. The pursuing canoes were now less than a mile behind them. "I'd give a good deal," muttered the scout, "for a few black clouds over the moon; we'd make for shore then and risk it.
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