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If any card but the eight of hearts turns up, protect yourself, or somebody's widow'll be in a position to collect life insurance, and I ain't married! Turn her over." He leaned lightly on the table with both hands. Their eyes met in a level gaze. "Let her zip!" said the Eminent Person. Without hesitation he dropped the card over.
"And maybe we wouldn't have come, only Zip chased the rabbit," added Laddie. "Well, it was good luck all around, and I have my papers back," said Daddy Bunker. "And now we'll go on with the picnic." Daddy Bunker gave the lumberman some money, as his share in the good luck, and told him when he was through working for Mr. Barker to come to Pineville.
They saw it in the sentimental mannerisms of Lenore Honiwell, whose sickish emotionalism slipped pat into the burlesque. They rocked in their seats at the heroics of Tracy Gray Joyce, who could never again be taken seriously, since Luck had tagged him mercilessly as an unconscious comedian. Oh, yes, there was zip to the picture! But there was no explanation of the title.
"But maybe Zip won't let himself be hitched up," said Daddy Bunker. He wanted the boys to have fun while at Grandma Bell's, but he did not want them to go to a lot of work making something, and then be disappointed if it did not work. "Oh, I guess Zip won't mind being harnessed," said Grandma Bell. "Once we had a man working for us who had a small boy.
Then a laugh sounded behind him and, turning quickly, he saw Miss Belinda Simpkin's pet Poll-parrot swinging on the limb of a tree, laughing at him. This was too much for Zip's dignity. To have a Poll-parrot make a fool of him! So he ran to the tree where she sat and barked furiously up at her. But to make Zip still more angry, Polly kept on whistling and laughing at him.
Armed with these, they came running back as bravely as they had cowardly run away, all howling like Comanche Indians on the warpath. Seeing this, Zip grabbed a leg of chicken in his mouth and, running to the river, jumped in and swam to the opposite shore, where he soon disappeared in the thick underbrush.
Barker's place at Green Pond and back again, wouldn't it, Russ?" "Oh, I don't know," Russ answered slowly, as he guided Zip around a turn in the crooked path. "I could walk it, but your legs aren't as long as mine. I walked two miles once, with daddy." "What'll we do when we see that red-haired lumberman?" asked the smaller boy. "We'll ask him for daddy's old coat and the papers."
Suddenly, a bullet came in with a zip along the underside of his gun barrel, glanced against the strap, and took the skin off the negro's knuckles as if they'd been scraped with a knife. And then you should see the change! He wasn't scared not a bit; but he was mad enough to have charged the whole Spanish army alone.
"He won't scratch him again," Laddie said. "They're good friends now." "I don't want to see Zip scratched," returned Rose. "I just want to see Green Pond and the red-haired man and the cat." "I'll tell you what we can do," said Grandma Bell. "We can all go on a picnic to Green Pond to-morrow. We'll go in the carry-all and take our lunch. I know Mr.
Steadily the time of high water approached. "Saw the sole pieces!" finally rang out the order. That was a thing that must be done by two gangs, one on each side, and evenly, too. If one gang got ahead of the other, they must stop and let the second catch up. "Zip zip zip," came the shrill singing tone of the saws. Was everything all right?
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