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"I I'll carve," said Mark, for though he had a suspicion that to be old woman meant pouring out the tea, he was not sure. "Go ahead, then, my lad. Plates hot?" "Yes, sir." "That's your style. Don't be afraid of the onions. No ladies aboard." Mark helped the steak, and the mate poured out the tea and hewed a couple of lumps off a cottage-loaf. "There you are," he said; "and make much of it.
The story of Crocker is unknown to me, and interesting as it doubtless was, I do not deal with him, but with his Hole. Tradition said that he was a baker's boy who, during his basket-rounds, fell in love with a maiden who received the cottage-loaf, or perhaps good "Households," for her master's use.
On approaching nearer, Bella discerned that the refection had the appearance of a small cottage-loaf and a pennyworth of milk. Simultaneously with this discovery on her part, her father discovered her, and invoked the echoes of Mincing Lane to exclaim 'My gracious me! He then came cherubically flying out without a hat, and embraced her, and handed her in.
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