"Must be I'm most there," said Grandfather Frog to himself, as he scrambled up on a big mossy hummock, so as to look around.
Each time he scrambled back again and rolled his great goggly eyes in silent appeal to Little Joe Otter to come to his aid.
He scrambled out in a hurry and peeped through the wires of his cage.
So once more he scrambled down from the pile of corn and little by little drew nearer to the two queer things.
" Up the tree he scrambled, and after him went Shadow the Weasel.
" With this, Unc' Billy scrambled up to the next row of nests.
So Peter scrambled to his feet and scurried down the long hall, and as he32 ran, he cried "Ouch!
He scrambled to his feet and jumped again, only to be thrown just as before.
Without so much as a glance at Billy Mink, he scrambled to his feet and up the[163] bank, sure that a new and terrible enemy was at his heels.
"Don't you dare come down from that tree until I tell you you may," said she in her deep, grumbly-rumbly voice, as the twins scrambled up the tree.
They scrambled up and up until they were just as high as they could get.
Straight to the nearest tall tree ran the twins, and up they scrambled.
They scrambled to their feet.
" Boxer scrambled a little higher.
Then and not till then Emily ran too, and scrambled over the shore fence just as the bull started back across the pasture, evidently determined to catch somebody.
She wished the path might go on forever, but presently it veered away from the brook, and when she had scrambled over a mossy, old board fence she found herself in the "front-garden" of New Moon, where Cousin Jimmy was pruning some spirea bushes.
Rebecca heard the sound of the sewing machine in the dining-room and the chopping of meat in the kitchen; so knowing the whereabouts of both her aunts, she scrambled out of the window, caught hold of the lightning rod, slid down to the helpful cleat, jumped to the porch, used the woodbine trellis for a ladder, and was flying up the road in the storm before she had time to arrange any details of her future movements.
It was only a few minutes later that the hunter who had followed Lightfoot across the River reached the bank and scrambled out of his boat.
" said Pooh, and scrambled up as quickly as he could.
When finally she had gotten her breath and scrambled to her feet, Peter Rabbit was almost over to the friendly old brier patch.