The Practical Joke Or the Christmas Story of Uncle Ned
The Practical Joke Or the Christmas Story of Uncle Ned
William Kent
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11 pond-lilies, with their broad leaves of tender green, mingled with rushes and long grass, while the little fish danced like beams of silver-light in the clear wa- ter. The *pond was of no great extent, but toward the middle it was quite deep, and formed a fine broad sheet of ice for skating. " I remembered having seen the day before an air-hole near a rock on the opposite shore. I had tried the ice near it, and found it strong enough to bear my weight ; and concluding that by this time it wa...s quite thick enough to bear two or three, I determined to play a trick upon Jack, who was exceedingly good natured, but a great brag. Nobody could outwit him, he thought. ' Come, Jack, ' said I, ' follow me, and I will take you where you are afraid to go. ' ' I afraid !' said he, ' catch me afraid I can go any- where you can go ahead !' Away we shot, like swallows, toward the fatal air- 12 THE PRACTICAL JOKE. THE PRACTICAL JOKE. 13 hole. ' Follow me, ' I cried ; ' keep up with me if you can. ' Thus stimulated, Jack kept close in my rear.
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