Doesn't he look like a jumping-jack?" Later came the bridal couple, escorted by Doña Victorina and the rest of the party.

"Where do you live, Squinty?" asked Slicko, the jumping squirrel, as she skipped from one tree branch to another, and so reached the ground near the comical little pig.

They should have padded leather knobs at the tops, as these prevent the stick from slipping out of the hand and being dropped during a run, as well as saving the hand from blisters when the stick is much used in practising lifted stem or jump turns.

He hopped through their loops like they was playin' jump-the-rope with him.

The magical jumping beans.

At our feet, apparently within jumping distance, cleft centrally by its arrowy river, carpeted with verdure, is the magnificent valley of the Gallatin, like a rich emerald in its gorgeous mountain setting.

The subject, black-haired Molly Dale, rested the point of her hand-fork between two rows of ragged sailors and Johnny-jump-ups and lifted a pair of the clearest, softest blue eyes in the world in greeting to Racey Dawson.

The pack train split, ran and bolted, crashing through the trees, plunging down steep places, and jumping logs.

In the jumping light of the flames the face was that of a demon, a countenance twisted and tortured by the impotent lust to destroy.

Among other things, he said he had taken part in a jumping-match at Rhodes, and had done a wonderful jump which no one could beat.

I could not bring him to one direct reply; he could not maintain his jumping mind in a right line for the tithe of a moment by Clifford's Inn clock.

" Mr. G. Johnston of La Pointe, Lake Superior, writes: "Since I had the honor of receiving a printed letter from the Lyceum of Natural History, I have been enabled to procure, at this place, two specimens of the jumping mouse.

The stone floor was strewed with clean rushes, and lying about on tables were trashes, collars, and whips for hounds, as well as hoods, perches, jesses, and bells for hawks; whilst a variety of odds and ends, such as crossbows and jumping-poles, were scattered about the apartment.

The city had read the story when Anderson awoke the next morning, for The Intelligencer had made a clean "beat," and Burns had played up the story tremendously, hence it was with jumping pulses that Paul scanned the front page of that journal.

By catching one of these "meagre, hopping insects of the hour," you will see that their backs are green as emerald and their bellies gold: some have a touch of purple over the eyes; their thighs, which are enormously developed for jumping purposes, have likewise a delicate tinge of purple.

Before long, Floracita returned through the garden, skipping over a jumping-rope.

It made him jump so that he bounced round in his seat; and as she had lowered her head to put the piece of bécassinewhich had been poised on her fork while she spokeinto her mouth, his jumping round, and her raising her head suddenly, made her daisies catch on his beard; and you never saw such a funny sight, Mamma!

Portland For Tamey Drove over the bridge today, saw the water far below and once again imagined your last jump desperation, pain, relief, a twist of gallantry across your face, your final bow to the truth you always told me to tell.

Nowjump lively!" Rawbon took one quick jumping stride to the middle of the gap, and another and very much quicker one beyond it, as a bullet smacked venomously into the broken side of the trench.

On the opposite window ledge an empty drum of figs was now topped with hardy jump-up-johnnies.

We have put up with your black stains, your jumping aches, and your snappish looks, and now we are not going to let you go, under the pretence that you are to be scrubbed white, if you stay.

in some beggar's hauffet squattle; There ye may creep and sprawl and sprattle Wi' ither kindred jumping cattle, In shoals and nations, Whare horn nor bane ne'er daur unsettle Your thick plantations.

" "Crumping jicketsI mean jumping crickets!" exclaimed Harry.

Moreover this hypothesis, like the other and older one, in which the horns were said to act as the jumping cushion, takes no account of the females and young, which in mists, fogs, and at other times, need protection quite as much as the adult males.

They were running games, climbing games, hiding games, jumping games.