There was Collins, who was a wondrous adept at "daping, dapping, or dibbling" with a grasshopper, and who once brought in a string of trout which he laid out head to tail on the grass before the house in a line of beauty forty-seven feet long. A mighty bass voice had this Collins also, and could sing, "Larboard Watch, Ahoy!" "Down in a Coal-Mine," and other profound ditties in a way to make all the glasses on the table jingle; but withal, as you now suspect, rather a fishy character, and undeserving of the unqualified respect which the boy had for him. And there was Dr. Romsen, lean, satirical, kindly, a skilful though reluctant physician, who regarded it as a personal injury if any one in the party fell sick in summer time;and a passionately unsuccessful hunter, who would sit all night in the crotch of a tree beside an alleged deer-lick, and come home perfectly satisfied if he had heard a hedgehog grunt. It was he who called attention to the discrepancy between the boy's appetite and his size by saying loudly at a picnic, "I wouldn't grudge you what you eat, my boy, if I could only see that it did you any good,"--which remark was not forgiven until the doctor redeemed his reputation by pronouncing a serious medical opinion, before a council of mothers, to the effect that it did not really hurt a boy to get his feet wet. That was worthy of Galen in his most inspired moment. And there was hearty, genial Paul Merit, whose mere company was an education in good manners, and who could eat eight hard-boiled eggs for supper without ruffling his equanimity; and the tall, thin, grinning Major, whom an angry Irishwoman once described as "like a comb, all back and teeth;" and many more were the comrades of the boy's father, all of whom he admired, (and followed when they would let him,) but none so much as the father himself, because he was the wisest, kindest, and merriest of all that merry crew, now dispersed to the uttermost parts of the earth and beyond.
同类推荐
热门推荐
BOSS大人,别来无恙
他,是传说中慕氏集团的总裁大人,亦是全华夏女人的梦中情人,传闻他在商界叱诧风云,雷厉风行,传闻他为达目的,不择手段,不近人情…可是,在她面前,一切都是扯淡!什么高冷男神,霸道总裁,见了她,还不是跟耗子见了猫一样,都说女追男,隔层纱,怎么她这层纱,到现在都没捅破咧??这是一个悲伤的故事…眸倾天下:倾城灵力师
第一次写文,多包涵哈。简介什么的也不太会写,亲们看了就明白一了。他是30世纪的第一杀手,携好久毒医穿越。如何练丹药,制神器,训神兽。玩转六界。封面什么的,不要在意哈此文已弃泰坦的复仇
十年前一次看似意外的沉船事故,竟然是一场穿越世纪的惊天阴谋。绑架、勒索接踵而至,美籍华人白杨和白雪能否破解沉船事故中丧生的父亲设下的重重谜团找到传说中的宗教圣物——命运之矛?泰坦尼克号因何沉没?贝多芬的《英雄交响曲》究竟为谁而作……远古的传说、尘封的往事、匪夷所思的谜题,诱使着白氏兄妹陷入更大的危机。恐怖分子为了集圣矛、圣婴、圣棺三位于一体,献祭泰坦神完成心愿,展开了12小时的疯狂杀戮,十二位美国高官命悬一线。帝国大厦与自由女神像之内到底隐藏着什么秘密?耶稣的圣棺到底在哪里?白氏兄妹到底能不能解救这场浩劫?但更恐怖的阴谋却在酝酿,一个隐藏了千年的秘密探出坟墓,这一切已不仅仅是复仇……