richie was saying , but bill held the album a moment longer , staring fixedly at the woodcut , sure it would begin to move : the bowling pins ( if that 's what they were ) which the funny fellow was juggling would rise and fall , rise and fall , the kids would laugh and applaud ( except maybe they would n't all laugh and applaud ; some of them might scream and run instead ) , the mule-team pulling the barge would move beyond the borders of the picture .