thoughts would turn back--turn back
every now and again, to Jack at a Pinch!

To the quick-witted, surefooted youth,
so daring, if so unmannerly--such a
chuff--who had not even waited to make
the rope fast around his own body before
sliding down the rock to the Devil's Chair
a second time--and who had, a second
time too, climbed, unaided.

But she said nothing of him--or of
her recent escapade.

And she was glad that Una didn't!

Instead, she bathed every sore spot
left by the experience in the glory of telling
her new friends all that she might tell of
the romantic, space-conquering Thunder
Bird, while, above, the Man in the Moon,
eavesdropping, learned of the surprise in
store for him.

Perhaps he cribbed some hint, too, from
the excited girlish tongue of the demonstration
so soon to take place upon Mount
Greylock, when the invention would be
tried out; and lastly of the thrilling in-*
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