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"Of course the kind gentleman who keeps this magic food, stands at the door and hands it out by the bucketful." That was before I learned that sarcasm could no more pierce Jane's optimism, than a hair would cut a diamond. "No," she answered sweetly, "he sits on the floor, and takes cans from a box. He gets money for it, but I am going to make a grand bargain with him.

The light snapped off and Sim started forward with the boys beside him. The truck was sputtering and backfiring, pouring out rank smoke as they reached it. They went into it as it lurched forward. All of the cans came clanging back against the chain, almost shoving the boys out. Quickly the three moved cans until they were up in the front of the truck next to the cab.

Every salmon he could divert from the cans at Folly Bay meant, well, he did not often stop to ask precisely what that did mean to him.

Hayne was said to possess an eye for the picturesque and beautiful. If so, he deliberately condemned himself to the daily contemplation of a treeless barren, streaked in occasional shallows with dingy patches of snow, ornamented only in spots by abandoned old hats, boots, or tin cans blown beyond the jurisdiction of the garrison police-parties.

"We are all a little queer, I guess. I will take her down to the car." "And I'll be right along with a couple of cans of gasoline, Ma'am," rejoined Peterby Paul. "Ain't no use you and your friends bein' stranded no longer." "If you will be so kind," Ruth said. He turned back up the ravine and Ruth urged the lost woman down the hill.

Before it was a great heap of ashes and cinders, soaked into grimy hardness by the recent spring rains, and nearer still an ancient chopping-block, round which were scattered old weather-beaten hardwood knots which had defied the axe, parts of broken barrels and packing-boxes, and a nameless debris of tin cans, clam-shells, and general rubbish.

Now the coverings would come in very nicely if they were obliged to remain all night. "Well, let's eat," suggested Baldy. "It's most noon, and I'm hungry." "So am I," confessed Alice. It was not a very "nice" meal, but it was very satisfying, and certainly everyone had a good appetite. The tin cans served as dishes, and their fingers were knives and forks.

We tried to pull up, but the ponies had not yet settled among themselves which of us had won, and carried us to the extreme edge of the town, where a precipice seemed to invite them to stop, and we fell off into the arms of the Porto Ricans. They brought us wine in tin cans, cigars, borne in the aprons and mantillas of their women-folk, and demijohns of native rum.

Then I was in Revillons', looking at their cheaper furs, and in a store where they supply especially light hand-sleds, snowshoes, and patent cooking cans. We must have these things good, and I estimate they'll cost about six hundred dollars." "Six hundred dollars will make a big hole in our capital."

Then Giova started out with Beppo in search of garbage cans, Bridge bent his steps toward a small store upon the outskirts of town where food could be purchased, The Oskaloosa Kid having donated a ten dollar bill for the stocking of the commissariat, and the youth and the girl made their way around the south end of the town toward the meeting place beside the old mill.