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"Come," he said, "there's no time to be lost;--recollect, your rival
has gone before!"
The thought inspired Mr. Jinks with supernatural activity, and making
a leap, he lit, so to speak, behind Ralph, much after the fashion of a
monkey falling on the bough of a cocoanut tree.
The leap, however, had been somewhat too vigorous, and Mr. Jinks found
one of his grasshopper legs under the animal; while the other extended
itself at right-angles, in a horizontal position, to the astonishment
of the hostler standing by.
"All right!" cried Ralph, with a roar of laughter.
And setting spur to the terrified animal, he darted from the door,
followed by general laughter and applause, with which the clattering
of Mr. Jinks' sword, and the cries he uttered, mingled pleasantly.
This was the manner in which Jinks set out for revenge.


CHAPTER XXXII.
AN OLD BIBLE.

On the morning of the day upon which the events we have just related
occurred, little Redbud was sitting at her window, reading by the red
light of sunrise.


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