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A Man to Whom Time Was Money, and who was bolting his breakfast in order to catch a train, had leaned his newspaper against the sugar-bowl and was reading as he ate. In his haste and abstraction he stuck a pickle-fork into his right eye, and on removing the fork the eye came with it.
But to think that I've been trying to diet for a week in order to get intimate with suffering and privation! Polly came to stay with me one night, and we slept on the floor, with only a blanket under us, and no pillow; it was perfectly horrid. Polly dreamed that her grandfather ate up her grandmother, and I that Dicky stabbed the Jersey calf with a pickle-fork.
"See if it isn't as nice as theirs, I think it is fresher. Here is a tiny little pickle-fork, to eat with." Mrs. Argenter took the offered dainty. "You are a dear child," she said. "Come and eat some too." "O, I ate as I went along. Now, I'll read to you." And she took up "Blindpits," which her mother had laid down. "If it only wouldn't storm so," said Mrs. Argenter. "Mrs.
From that happy moment on you are under the dominance of a man. Your wedding presents are not yours, but his. If you felt like giving a duplicate pickle-fork to your mother, you could not legally do so, and after you were married, if your husband wanted that pickle-fork, he could get it.
It's not my affair, of course, but it seams to me that, if he goes on like this, one of these days he'll be stabbing, someone with a pickle-fork." To Archie's relief, his father-in-law's symptoms showed no signs of development. In fact, his manner reverted to the normal once more, and a few days later, meeting Archie in the lobby of the hotel, he seemed quite cheerful.
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