The merchants wished to go to the smaller vessel; but the men on board it, fearing that too many would come, cut the connecting rope.

" "Why not?" "Because I'm not going any further, with this foot" He threw down the sled-rope, and limped after wood for the fire.

This is the young beggar who tied that rope to the scrapers; I vote we give him a jolly good licking.'

" He pulled up the rope of the sled, and his little cargo lurched towards him.

He removed the saddle from Captain Jack, took the rope from the filly's neck, threw the horses some hay and on the dry ground under the shed by the corral, lay down and went to sleep.

As before, I fastened the rope to the tree.

The sheriff at this moment motioned the crowd to stand back and gave the signal to his two assistants, who went to the other end of the pole and seized the rope dangling there.

I saw aunty-Anne (the commodore was really ignorant of the girl's name) jump a skipping-rope, yesterday morning, between the hours of seven and eight.

We know the ropes, and could make a living at it, more, too, but now we can't even get one drink on credit.

It seemed as though he never would get through using pa for a mop, but finally the people got a rope around pa, and a keeper got an iron hook in the elephant's ear, and they pulled pa out on one side, and got the elephant away on the other side, and just then the callipoe, that ends the parade, came by us and played the "Blue Danube," and the elephant got on his hind feet and waltzed on the pavement.

Forcing Henrich to go before him, while he held the rope of twisted grass that bound his hands he followed close behind, and placed his foot in each print that the prisoner made, so as to destroy the impression of the boy's European shoe.

The stranger untied the rope from the picket pin, and taking a half-loop around the pony's nose, he jumped on his back.

" Bunny Bright Eyes said, "Can you walk a tight rope?" Tippy Toes said he did not know, but Snubby Nose said he had walked a tight rope off and on all his life!

" "Hang me?" "Aye!" quoth Beltane, and setting the noose about his neck, cast the rope across a branch.

Satisfied on that point I brought forward the rope and began paying it out of the window.

Why should I not simply pass the rope behind the stanchion and use it doubled?

In vain I entreated the spotted face to take the silver, and loosen the ropes; but he spurned my offers and immediately departed.

And, hastily slipping the rope from his neck, he hurries to his friend's side.

The ordinary mine-sweep, the function of which was to catch the mooring rope of the mine and drag the mine clear of the channel, was, of course, ineffective against the mine on the bottom, and there was no guarantee that mines might not be released from the bottom and rise to a depth at which they were dangerous, after the channel had been swept and reported clear.

He grasped the rope, and that instant his boat sank like a rock!

Yet, I had received such a fright, that I was glad to scramble up the rift, and haul up the rope.

Four subordinates followed, carrying ropes, muzzles, pikes, and one of them a stick having on its end a big round cork filled with fine needles.

Then I drew the rope down, the latter half when released falling with a great thud.

" When they sighted timber that commended itself to the woodman, if he thought well of it, why, he just dropped the sled-rope without a word, pulled the axe out of the lashing, trudged up the hillside, holding the axe against his shirt underneath his parki, till he reached whatever tree his eye had marked for his own.

You will find a rope on the chimney piece.