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Having discovered that Miss Laura was not inclined to give up her gingerbread, he immediately acknowledged its virtues, but recommended that it should be cut into extremely small dice, and allowed, as it were, to melt away upon the tongue; stating, that her digestive organs were so refined and delicate, that they would not permit themselves to be loaded with any large particles, even of farinaceous compound.
"And, and " continued Lucina, tremulously, for she was beginning to falter, being nerved to such length of assertive speech only by her wish to comfort and reassure Jerome, "don't you know don't you know, Jerome, that a woman's giving is all her taking, and you wouldn't take the gingerbread, dear, and the money for the shoes, when we were both children but, maybe your taking from somebody who loves you is your best giving "
"I'll just take a couple o' crackers in my pocket and step over to the old place. I'll take my time and be back soon enough to make 'em that pan o' my hot gingerbread they'll be counting on for supper."
"Now Phronsie," he cried, "give me a kiss; you haven't any soft soap to-day, have you? no; that's a good, nice one, now; your 'gingerbread boy' was just splendid!" "Did he eat it?" asked the child in grave delight. "Well no he hasn't eaten it yet," said Jasper, smiling on the others; "he's keeping it to look at, Phronsie." "I should think so!" groaned Polly.
She crept carefully along till she saw a settlement of little huts very like mushrooms, for they were made of cookies set on lumps of the brown sugar; and queer people, looking as if made of gingerbread, were working very busily round several stoves which seemed to bake at a great rate.
Do you, Beloved, I am afraid you are not old enough, but do you remember the days of the tin tinder-box, the flint, and steel? Click! click! click! Al-h-h! knuckles that time! click! click! CLICK! a spark has taken, and is eating into the black tinder, as a six-year-old eats into a sheet of gingerbread.
I have eaten a pig and a lamb now there is a ship for you." Cardo put down the paper, and taking the gingerbread in his thin fingers, looked at it with eyes that gradually filled with tears. "Gingerbread?" he said, looking next at the boy, "gilded gingerbread in the moonlight!" Sister Vera's eyes and ears were instantly on the alert, while she made a sign of silence to the boy.
They little thought that she was a New England trader, or rather huxter, ladened with notions, such as apples, dried and green, apple-sauce, onions, cheese, molasses, New England rum, and gingerbread, and a number of little ditto's, suitable, as the skipper thought, for the Quebec market, after it should have changed masters.
Bundle, and ate large slices of an excellent species of gingerbread called "parliament," which she kept in a tin case in the cupboard.
To some persons in high life, and addicted to field sports, it is still a species of licensed buffoonery, to be regulated by a sort of circus-master with a whip in one hand and a gingerbread nut in the other. By the truly simple soul it is thus summed up: "Work! Why, 'e sits writin' all day." To some, both green and young, it shines as a vocation entirely glorious and exhilarating.
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