But the signalman seemed quite broken down, and the children had to pat him and thump him for quite a long time before he found his handkerchief—a red one with mauve and white horseshoes on it—and mopped his face and spoke.
They had not known what to do when she was fainting, but now she was only crying they could thump her on the back and tell her not to, just as they always did.
He liked the motion, and was just beginning to wonder whether it would go on until he developed wings and turned into a Toad-bird, when he landed on his back with a thump, in the soft rich grass of a meadow.
Now hailstones thump upon the roof.
Every thump of her foot turned into Why?
He laughed and slapped his own ample stomach a thump.
(Here a terrible thump.
As her tiny hands stroked the great shaggy head, I heard the gentle thump, thump, thumping of the wolf's tail from deep inside the stump.
Every thump of her foot turned into Why?
" Then she laid her head on the bird's breast, but she was alarmed immediately, for it seemed as if something inside the bird went "thump, thump.
