Jacks noticed that although a paper cutter was lying by their side the leaves of all were uncut.
Jacks," Penelope said, "that I am keeping anything from you, you are very much mistaken.
"And I raise you five thousand just to lend a hand at keeping Jack out," MacDonald said, in turn.
"Mebbe this is a case where a hunch after the draw is better'n the hunch before," Kearns remarked; "wherefore duty says, 'Lift her, Jack, lift her,' and so I lift her another five thousand."
'Pussy's, Jack! We must drink Many happy returns to her.
Tell me, Jack,' the young fellow then flows on: 'do you really and truly feel as if the mention of our relationship divided us at all?
Button-Bright was at first rather shy with the quaint Pumpkinhead, but Jack's face was so jolly and smiling--being carved that way--that the boy soon grew to like him.
Each time Ozma has carved me a new head just like the old one, and as my body is by far the largest part of me, I am still Jack Pumpkinhead, no matter how often I change my upper end.
Some of the pumpkins now ripening on the vines were almost as large as Jack's house, and he told Dorothy he intended to add another pumpkin to his mansion.
The Patchwork Girl was greatly interested in Jack and examined him admiringly.
Then he saw old Mombi raise her arm and sprinkle the powder from the box over the pumpkin head of his man Jack. She did this in the same way one would pepper a baked potato, and the powder sifted down from Jack's head and scattered over the red shirt and pink waistcoat and purple trousers Tip had dressed him in, and a portion even fell upon the patched and worn shoes.
Jack Pumpkinhead stepped back a pace, at this, and said in a reproachful voice:
Moore asked him if it was not time that he and
Jack were in the study for the morning recitations.
"They must ha' thought better on't for some reason or another," said the
Jack, "and gone down."
At his word of command,
Jack walked about among them.
