Where it had touched Prickly Porky, the sharp little spears had stuck into it, so that when Peter Rabbit and Jumper the Hare hurried up, there lay the runaway cabbage, looking for all the world like a great green pincushion.
Down it started, rolling and bounding along, with Peter Rabbit and Jumperthe Hare frantically trying to catch it.
Right on top of him fell Jumper the Hare, who was close behind the runaway cabbage and had no time to turn aside.
I would like nothing better than to run a race with Bowser the Hound," said Jumper the Hare, sitting up very straight.
Goff really wants to show off his record-breaking jumper and his fiancee at the same time," she said, smiling carelessly at me.
Jumper the Hare had visited Lightfoot's favorite eating places at night, but Lightfoot had not been in any of them.
Peter jumped and turned to find his big cousin, Jumper the Hare.
He discovered Jumperthe Hare sitting under a little hemlock-tree and told him.
He saw Jumper the Hare squat down under a low-hanging branch of a hemlock-tree and prepare to take a nap.
Peter a little crossly, for Jumperhad startled him.
Isn't he handsome," whispered Peter to Jumper the Hare; "and did you ever hear of anything so wonderful as the growing of those new antlers in such a short time?
Peter Rabbit andJumper the Hare, who happened to be not far away, hurried over where they could peep out from under some young hemlock-trees.
Jumper did know, and this is the story he told Peter: "Way back in the beginning of things lived old Mr. Lynx.
He's the greatest jumper and coaster in the Green Forest.
The first chance he got, he asked his cousin, Jumper the Hare, about it.
So was Jumper the Hare and Happy Jack the Gray Squirrel and Chatterer the Red Squirrel and Whitefoot the Wood Mouse and Striped Chipmunk and a lot more.
See that you keep out of danger, for that is why I have made you the greatest jumper in the Green Forest,' said she.
The first time he met his cousin, Jumper the Hare, he asked him about Howler, forJumper had come down to the Green Forest from the Great Woods where Howler lives and is feared.
To be sure Jumper the Hare could jump higher and farther than he could, but Jumper is his own cousin, so it was all in the family, so to speak, and Peter didn't mind.
I'll make you the greatest jumper in the Green Forest.
Jumper looked up at the moon to see what time of night it was.
You know Jumper used to live in the Great Woods where Tufty lives, and Peter felt sure that he must know the reason why Tufty has such a ridiculous stub of a tail.
You see neither Jumper nor Peter ever have hunted any one in all their lives.
When the commands are uttered in a quick, loud voice, the jumper repeats the order.
The instant he strikes, the jumper soars away again like a bird, at right angles to his first jump, and zigzags here and there through the air, so fast and so far as to baffle even the swift hawk and the dogged weasel.
The larger far-apart tracks mark where the hind feet of the jumper come down in front and outside of the fore-paws as he jumps.
He strove desperately to twist himself loose, using in a frantic way the wrestling tricks he knew; but the grip of the bounty-jumper was too powerful.
I guess that that will make you quite the most wonderful jumper of all my children,' said she.
Danny has been telling me what a wonderfuljumper you are.
Danny chuckled again, for he knows that Peter considers himself quite a jumper and is inclined to be a bit jealous of any one else who pretends to jump save his cousin, Jumper the Hare.
It is the same way with Peter's big cousin, Jumper the Hare.
Elsa, from the fortress of her kitchen, screamed that Jumper had done it.
Jumper was wagging his tail and affectionately sympathizing.
The height an experienced wall-jumper will clear seems scarcely credible.
Her jumper was red, with golden buttons, and her collar was white, and her hair was soft, with combs.
Perhaps he won't just say a word to me about Mrs. Cartwright, or how that goldeny jumper suits her, on purpose.
When the conductor and passengers of the express walked back, Bill Adams was bending over a man in a blue jumper laid flat on the cinders.
O'Riley, wrapping himself more closely in his fur jumper as they sped along.
Most people would have pronounced her a man, for she wore precisely the same dress--fur jumper and long boots--that was worn by the men of the Dolphin.
Crowley growled derogatory comments on her temptress qualities when he peered past the edge of his curtain in the morning and looked down on Latisan mounting into his jumper seat.
He still clung to the jumper seat with his stiffened fingers.
He leaped off the jumper and thrust with the handle of his whip in the direction of the dynamite operations.
He ordered Latisan to get onto the jumper seat beside him, slashed his horses with the whip, and led the way toward the north.
The man who had put the horses to the jumper in Adonia, the man whom she knew as Jeff, was the deputy whom Flagg had sent.
The warriors were scattered in pursuit of fugitives or busy scalping the dead, when a negro brought word to Jumper that a number of the soldiers had collected and were building a fort of logs with the cannon to protect them.
Jumper raised the yell and called together his Indians for a charge on the little company of brave men who were making their last stand behind tree trunks placed on the ground in the form of a triangle.
Buy a blue jumper and get a cabbage-tree up in place of that cap, and you'd pass muster as a Sydney-sider born and bred.
He kissed the picture very tenderly, and with a bit of twine secured it in the pocket of his jumper in dangerous proximity to his heart.
Cabbage-tree hats or billycocks were on every head, and for the rest a gray or bluejumper tucked into Clay-stained trousers and Wellington boots satisfied the majority.
You make about the poorest kind of claim-jumper I ever ran up against, and I've handled quite a few in my time.
There was once a jumper who figured he'd found the points you mentioned out.
If you'll stand in, we'll take him along on the jumper sled.
He first looked at the jumperand whined, then at Papa and yelped, and wagged his tail in a manner that could mean only one thing, "You are forgetting your jumper and I don't want to stay here and watch after it.
He probably laid it on the ground, there not being many bushes in Dawson County large enough to hang a jumper up on.
As the morning warmed up, Papa pulled off his blue denim jumper and laid it down.
Such a talk from Jumper surprises me, for he is a man of sense.
This gutter-jumper is indecently sensitive at his age; he only thinks of women.
Then we returned to our labour at the jumper and hammer.
He came to Kinlochleven at the heel of the summer, and because he mastered his cough for a moment when asking for a job, Red Billy Davis started him on the jumper squad.
The descending hammer flew clear of thejumper and caught the poor fellow over the temple, knocking him stiff dead.
I was new to the work of the jumper gang, but I soon learned how operations were performed.
It was a difficult feat to close our hands tightly over the hammers with which we took uncertain aim at the drill heads and jumper ends.
It was over on Section Twenty-seven, that the claim-jumper had built a hut about where the schoolhouse now is, with a stable in one end of it, and a den in which to live in the other.
He dared the shotgun the night they run that claim-jumper off.
I thought so the night we went over to run the claim-jumper off Absalom Frost's land, within a week of my joining.
Well, we let the claim-jumper put on his clothes over the tar and feathers, and loaded his things into his wagon, hitched up his team, and whipped them up to a run and let them go over the prairie.
Dick McGill, I am sure it was, told the first claim-jumper we visited that I was at the head of the mob, and he had me arrested.
She walked quickly with a good stride and her slight, silvery skirts and rosy, silken jumper showed her figure clearly enough--her round hips and firm, girlish bosom.
Then they came back to him--the rose-coloured jumper and the short, silvery skirts.
The chute jumper was Charles Augustus Lindbergh, who had not yet learned to fly.
He said he would sue the city if they didn't get that other guy and his chute jumper off the field by the time he was ready to put on his exhibition.
