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Alvez, furnished with an enormous metal spoon, stirred the liquid, which threw a great white glare over those delirious monkeys. Moini Loungga advanced. He seized the spoon from the trader's hands, plunged it into the basin, then, drawing it out full of punch in flames, he brought it to his lips. What a cry the King of Kazounde then gave! An act of spontaneous combustion had just taken place.
I can take my medicine an' lick the spoon, but three days' grub is drawin' it a shade fine, that's all, an' I hereby register my kick. Go on with the funeral." O'Brien was still wavering. He glanced inquiringly at Mucluc Charley. "I should say, Judge, that three days' grub was a mite severe," the latter suggested; "but you're runnin' the show.
The officers, while in the field, were expected to practise an abstemiousness and self-denial such as was hardly surpassed by the most rigid monastic orders. However noble their birth, however high their rank in the service, they were not permitted to eat from anything better than pewter. It was a high crime even in a count and field-marshal to have a single silver spoon among his baggage.
He shook his head and paid for the child's supper with his whole capital, two nickels. He held her on the end of the counter and, awkwardly but with tender carefulness, fed the bread and milk to her with a spoon. A healthy man's hunger gnawed within him and the savor of coffee from the big, bubbling urn tantalized him.
But when you have eaten it, put the pot and spoon under the hedge, that I may find them when I return." "If we eat first, we shall have strength for our work," said the Knave; "and as there is only one spoon, we must eat by turns. But fairly divide, friendly abide. As you went first the latter part of our journey, I will begin on this occasion.
"It's probably a dressmaker's advertisement," she answered, and went on with the pretence of eating her breakfast. "Or an invitation to dine with Mrs. Simpson," he suggested, laughingly, as he rose. "It's just the stationery she would choose." Honora dropped her spoon in her egg-cup.
I never do have no luck," said Tom. "If it rained soup I wouldn't have no spoon, and a hole in my hat. "Well, it was this-a-way: I was riding right along yonder, making for the ranch house, and not thinking of nothing not a thing!
"It was a deeply interesting sermon," he said. "Thank you," said Chichester, very impersonally. The footman went away, and Lady Sophia began to make tea. "When I went home," Malling continued, "I sat up till late thinking it over. Part of it suggested to my mind one or two rather curious speculations." "Which part?" asked Lady Sophia, dipping a spoon into a silver tea-caddy.
They was frightened out o' their wits at first, but somehow he got over 'em, an' made 'em laugh their owd heads nigh off." Her charge laid his spoon down, and his shrewd, lined face assumed a new expression of interest. "Did he! Did he, indeed!" he exclaimed. "Good Lord! what an exhilarating person! I must go and see him. Perhaps he'd make me laugh my `owd head nigh off. What a sensation!
I made no objection to this; and Ernest and I prepared to go, and leave Fritz in charge of the family. When we were ready to set out, Fritz presented each of us with a little case he had made from the skin of the margay. They were ingeniously contrived to contain knife, fork, and spoon, and a small hatchet.
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