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It was there that I began to suffer with hunger. The master and mistress, two old Limousins afterwards murdered, were terrible misers, and the bread, cut in tiny pieces for each meal, was kept under lock and key the rest of the time. You should have seen the mistress at supper time serving the soup, sighing at each ladleful she dished out.

"He's been workin' like a hoss for months, without hardly gittin' a sight of color; but he's had th' pluck tew keep a-diggin'. I reckon it's th' Leetle Woman up in th' cabin that's kept him a-goin'. She's pluck clean through an' has stood right by th' side of Dick, no matter what sort of luck fate dished out tew him. I shore am glad Dick has hit it for th' Leetle Woman's sake, as well as his own.

'There you are a star in its orbit! A satellite a satellite of Mars that's what she is to be! There there you've given yourself away! You want a satellite, Mars and his satellite! You've said it you've said it you've dished yourself! He stood smiling in frustration and amusement and irritation and admiration and love.

Tenney was there, at a few minutes after twelve, but dinner was not on time. He came in, washed his hands at the sink and glanced about him. The table was set, and Tira, at the stove, the child on her hip, was trying the potatoes. She did not look at him. If he looked strange, it seemed to her she might not be able to go on. "I ain't dished up," she said. "I'm kinder late."

Joseph Hume was his especial target, and was dished up week after week with a decidedly original Latin garnish: 'Ex humili potens From a surgeon to a member of Parliament; 'Humili modi loqui To talk Scotch like Hume; 'Nequis humasse velit Let no one call Hume an ass, etc., etc.

But this that I have said is all that my experience has taught me about influencing the Tommy. No doubt there are other ways; but I have not been able to strike them. Yours very truly, DONALD HANKEY, 2nd Lieut. P.S. Of course in becoming a Second Lieutenant I have dished my own influence most effectually.

I wonder where the cummers will anchor their craft? 'And I'll vow, said another rustic, 'the wine they quaff is none of your visionary drink, such as a drouthie body has dished out to his lips in a dream; nor is it shadowy and unsubstantial, like the vessels they sail in, which are made out of a cockleshell or a cast-off slipper, or the paring of a seaman's right thumb-nail.

In putting a slight emphasis on the concluding words he watched her closely. She betrayed herself to the extent of throwing back her head with a little tilt to the chin. "I don't believe he'd consider that being dished. He's the sort of man who loses only when he flings away." "He's the sort of man who's a beastly cad."

Really, I don't need any more. Will you please excuse me?" "Not if you run away with my spoon, Betty," laughed her hostess. "It was the dish that ran away with the spoon, and you are not a dish, dear." "She'll be dished if she doesn't hurry," called Bob from the door, and then he disappeared. "Sit down and finish your luncheon, Betty," advised Mrs. Littell.

Ginnell's arm fell. Harman, forgetting everything, turned, dashed into the cabin behind him, climbed on the upper bunk, and stuck his head through the port-hole. Then he dashed back into the saloon. "It's the Port of Amsterdam," cried Harman, "It's the salvage ship, she's there droppin' her anchor; we're done, we're dished and we foolin' like this and they crawlin' up on us."