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Of course, there may be none." "I will bet you a dollar to a doughnut that such a witness appears whether you get him or not." Chick looked hurt for a minute, and then he caught a gleam in Nick's eye. "I begin to understand you," said he. "Your plan," Nick went on, "is to circulate among the young men who whisper their love in the paths of that particular region.
A watch was consulted and they learned to their chagrin that it was half-past four. "I vos gitting hungry," came from Hans. "Don't say a word!" cried Tom. "I could eat a doughnut a month old." "Don't speak about it," put in Dick dryly. "It will only make you feel more hungry." Darkness was coming on rapidly, and all of the boys were beginning to despair when suddenly Dick gave a shout of joy.
I couldn't bear to give up Mame; and yet it pained me to think of abandoning the practice of eating. I had acquired the habit too early. For twenty-seven years I had been blindly rushing upon my fate, yielding to the insidious lures of that deadly monster, food. It was too late. I was a ruminant biped for keeps. It was lobster salad to a doughnut that my life was going to be blighted by it.
Then, with it held tight in his arms, he threw himself on the bed, sobbing over and over, "It's too cruel! It's too cruel! They didn't even let me tell him good-by!" He did not go down to supper when Mrs. Dearborn called him, so she went up after a while with a glass of milk and a doughnut. "There, there!" she said soothingly; "don't take it so hard.
"Say," he added as he sat down and began eating a doughnut. "If you ever hit anybody take a sledge hammer or a crowbar. It wouldn't be decent to use your fist." "Don't talk when you've got food in your mouth," said Joe who seemed to have acquired a sense of responsibility for the manners of Abe. "I reckon you're right," Abe laughed.
Mamma put baby, whom she was feeding, off her lap he began to scream; little brother left his doughnut on a chair the cat began to eat it; little Lucy left her doll on the floor big brother stepped on its face, for he did not leave his book, but tried to read as he went to get the light shawl; papa laid down his cigar to prepare the put-offer's breakfast it went out; the maid dropped the broom the wind blew the trash from the dust-pan over the swept floor.
She knew and acknowledged the great importance of trying cookies, pies, and cake while they were hot. She was forever overworked and tired, yet she always found time to make gingerbread women with currant buttons on their frocks, and pudgy doughnut men with clove eyes and cigars of cinnamon.
Reggie, do you by any remote chance read a paper called Funny Slices?" "Every week." He gazed at me with a kind of wistful admiration. "I envy you, Reggie. Fancy being able to make a statement like that openly and without fear. Then I take it you know the Doughnut family?" "I should say I did." His voice sank almost to a whisper, and he looked over his shoulder nervously. "Reggie, I do them."
We could purchase a doughnut and a cup of coffee almost anywhere, or we could eat a sandwich in the park, but the matter of a bed, the business of sleeping in a maelstrom like New York was something more than serious it was dangerous. Frank, naturally of a more prodigal nature, was all for going to the Broadway Hotel. "It's only for one night," said he. He always was rather careless of the future!
"I'm the only rank outsider," grinned Herb. "I take off my hat to the rest of the bunch. You're the fellows!" "You needn't take it off to me," laughed Jimmy. "I got only honorable mention, and there isn't much nourishment in that. Not half as much as there is in a doughnut. I could have used that money, too."
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