I hope you do not insinuate that a daughter of mine discovers levity?" "Certainly, ma'am; she is called the best rope jumper in the village, I hear; and levity, or lightness of carriage, is the great requisite for skill in the art.

Presently I was on a steep hill-side, which I ascended only to drop through a tangle of screes and jumper to the mires of a great bog.

Scales evidently was of the opinion that a Siberian veteran and athlete was better fitted to lead the "shock troops" than a mere counter-jumper like himself.

It was a big jumper of the sort described which was the pride of the boys in the Leavitt district school.

Does a thousand words a minute and knits a jumper at the same time.

" "Will you jump first, Monty?" said Russell; "both of you are better jumpers than I, and to tell the truth I'm rather afraid.

"It would be difficult to set about it otherwise than coolly with the thermometer forty-five below zero," remarked Fred, beating his hands together, and stamping his feet, while the breath issued from his mouth like dense clouds of steam, and fringed the edges of his hood and the breast of his jumper with hoar-frost.

"Old Thunderbolt's too much for them sand-hill jumpers from the Cimarron.

I thought so the night we went over to run the claim-jumper off Absalom Frost's land, within a week of my joining.

What a time they had yesterday keeping the jumper on the track, and what a shrewd device they had for steering!

Bubbles had chosen to put on this afternoon a long, rose-red knitted jumper over a yellow skirt, and she looked as if she had stepped out from some ancient Spanish religious procession.