Reddy hid five and then pretended to be so tickled over catching one, the smallest of the lot, that Billy Mink didn't once suspect a trick.
"Let us go to it," cried Uncle Blair, gaily, casting aside his sorrowful mood and catching our hands.
I know that I am a HARD-LOOKING SIGHT, but it isn't anything catching.
That is, it had been splendid at first; but later the fun went out of it because we found that Peter was, of malice prepense, allowing himself to be caught too easily, in order that he might have the pleasure of catching Felicity—which he never failed to do, no matter how tightly his eyes were bound.
" I demanded sternly, supposing I could frighten him into giving intelligence, by catching him thus, alone.
" she cried, catching my dress.
The nearer I got to the house the more agitated I grew; and on catching sight of it I trembled in every limb.
"Joseph is here," I answered, catching opportunely the roll of his cartwheels up the road; "and Heathcliff will come in with him.
" Cathy, catching a glimpse of her friend in his concealment, flew to embrace him; she bestowed seven or eight kisses on his cheek within the second, and then stopped, and drawing back, burst into a laugh, exclaiming, "Why, how very black and cross you look!
if we only had a proper boat and a good harpoon, I would say 'After the beast,' for he would be well worth the trouble of catching!
This catching fire in its turn, would break, and the mass of iron would fall on the nitro-glycerine.
"Come along, then, and make sure of the girls," said Merry, catching up her roll of work, for the harvesting was done.
" cried Jack, catching up two big books and whirling them round like clubs, as if to get his muscles in order at once.
" cried the delighted gentleman, catching his son in an embrace so close that the fat legs kicked convulsively, and the little coat-tails waved in the breeze, while cane and hatchet fell with a dramatic bang.
" cried Gus, as Joe, only catching the words "Open that!
Bemis hurried away, with a vague impression that Boo had swallowed a dozen brass buttons, and Miss Bat had been coasting somewhere in a bath-pan; but catching Jackson was important, so he did not stop to investigate.
At this high-handed proceeding, and the threat which accompanied it, Jack's patience gave out, and catching up Caesar, as he thought, sent him flying after the retreating tyrant with the defiant declaration,— "Keep them, then, and your old book, too!
" The little drum came flying in, and, catching it, Jill, with some hesitation, obeyed Frank's order.
"There's an arm for you; now hook away, and let's see how it works," he said, handing over the instrument to Jack, who proceeded to show its unexpected capabilities by hooking the cloth off the table in attempting to get his handkerchief, catching Frank by the hair when fishing for a book, and breaking a pane of glass in trying to draw down the curtain.
"It looks like a boy's room," he said at last, catching his breath a little.
