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I'm goin' to make doughnuts fried cakes I used to call 'em, tho' it's more stylish to say doughnuts these days. I don't like them that's bought in the store with sugar sprinkled on top; sugar don't belong on fried cakes. It takes away their crispiness and you might jest as well be eatin' cake." Drusilla kept the chef busy waiting on her until she had all the articles needed.
"You poor thing!" said Helen. "You are starving to death. What shall I get for you? I have influence in the kitchens. Does marmalade, to spread your muffins, present any attractions? or shall I beg for rusks? or what do you say to doughnuts? there are doughnuts in this closet; crullers and milk are nice for breakfast."
Allen buying a whole wheelbarrow-load of golden-looking doughnuts, brought by a woman of the village close by, I wondered with some apprehension if she were meaning to reward us for our excessive virtue. But they were an impromptu treat for the soldiers standing in the yard some already lined up to march and the way they disappeared down those brown throats made me feel blasée and over-civilized.
"A week?" queried the property man in some surprise. "Why so, may I ask, my noble critic?" "Well, to be frank with you, because if we did, methinks after once or twice having made acquaintance with our band, 'tis dollars to doughnuts they would have substantially staked us to leave town."
"I see your mother has a new fur coat," I said, with the plate of doughnuts just beyond his reach. "Yes'm." "She didn't buy it?" "She didn't buy it. Say, Mrs. Pitman, gimme that doughnut." "Oh, so the coat washed in!" "No'm. Pap found it, down by the Point, on a cake of ice. He thought it was a dog, and rowed out for it."
"I cannot bear to be unpatriotic, but compare this with the ten minutes for refreshments at an American lunch-counter, its baked beans, and pies, and its cream cakes and doughnuts under glass covers. I don't believe English people are as good as we are; they can't be; they're too comfortable.
I'm no slouch of a bear killer myself." "Aw, rats!" scoffed Steve. "This ain't one of your docile trapped bear kind, Bandy-legs. This one can run like all get-out. If he ever starts after you, it's dollars to doughnuts you'd never get away on them short pins of yours." "Can bears climb trees?" asked Bandy-legs, nervously. "Well, I should say yes, black bears especially.
You are overwhelmed by a profound bow from the grocer's lad as he passes your window, and you invite him in and beg that he will honor you by accepting half a dollar and a handful of doughnuts: the lady in the merino morning-wrapper has provided a cake-basket full for the occasion.
"Buzz," Red said, "it's dollars to doughnuts they're coming here to lay some eggs on our 'drome just to put the wind up these boys. Remember what I told you a few minutes ago." Larkin was more hopeful. "I guess not," he said. "Headed for some supply base or ammunition dump farther in, would be my guess. But if they are coming here, there's little we can do about it.
There were Salvation Army lassies present too, with their pies and doughnuts that made the boys feel closer to home than almost anything else, and even a sprinkling of Red Cross nurses from the field hospital who had been given a brief leave for recuperation.
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