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"Who wins?" he inquired, not having heard Waffles. "They did, blast it!" exploded Bigfoot. One of the Kid's peculiarities was revealed in the unreasoning and hasty conclusions he arrived at. From no desire to imply unfairness, but rather because of his bitterness against failure of any kind and his loyalty to Waffles, came his next words: "Mebby they skinned yu."
He takes a lot of ice-water and a little something out of the decanter, and maybe some black coffee." "Yes, and I'm sure it's bad for him. He doesn't look a bit healthy and hasn't since he quit eating breakfast. He used to be such a hearty eater at breakfast, steaks and bacon and chops and eggs and waffles.
Sonny, he seemed to think it was mighty graceful the way she done it, an' he's often imitated it in his little sleep nights when he'd eat hot waffles for his supper. An' wife she'd always jump up an' git the mutton taller. I never took it serious myself, 'cause I know how a triflin' thing 'll sometimes turn a level-headed little chap into a drizzlin' ejiot. I been there myself.
'Gentlemen all, said Tom, passing his sleeve across his mouth, and casting a side-long glance at the company as he raised the cup to drink their healths. He quaffed it off at a draught. 'Well, Tom, and what shall we do to-morrow? asked Mr. Waffles, as Tom replaced the Fox's head, nose uppermost, on the table.
"I dare say you are as hungry as a bear," said Preston. "Now here comes tea and waffles, Daisy; you shall have some waffles and cream. That will make you feel better." "Cream isn't good with waffles," said Daisy. "Yes, it is. Cream is good with everything. You shall try. I know! I am always cross myself when I am hungry." "I am not hungry, Preston; and I don't think I am cross."
It also allowed us room, to be just, for an inordinate consumption of hot waffles retailed by a benevolent black "auntie" who presided, with her husband's aid as I remember, at a portable stove set up in a passage or recess opening from the court; to which we flocked and pushed, in a merciless squeeze, with all our coppers, and the products of which, the oblong farinaceous compound, faintly yet richly brown, stamped and smoking, not crisp nor brittle, but softly absorbent of the syrup dabbed upon it for a finish, revealed to me I for a long time, even for a very long time supposed, the highest pleasure of sense.
The next mornin' Aunt Caroline had the wonderfulest breakfast you ever saw: waffles, honey, bacon, eggs, and John just et and talked and kept swearin'. And Aunt Caroline sat lookin' down at her plate eatin' and didn't say nothin' just looked calm and happy.
"You see, Sally, my friend is shy with the shyness of youth and inexperience and he is unable to utter the thoughts that do in him rise! I can see that he is your captive, your meekest slave. By the way, will there be cottage cheese prepared by your own adorable hand for supper? Are golden waffles likely to confront us on the breakfast table tomorrow at the hideous hour of five-thirty?
While these three persons are comfortably seated at the tea-table, enjoying their waffles, cold tongue, and canned peaches, and asking and answering questions helter-skelter in the delightful confusion of reunion after long separation, let us briefly inform the reader who and what they are. Mr.
"Oh!" exclaimed the "new lady," "I don't understand how anybody can get tired of waffles!" "Nor I!" laughed Miss Mullaly's right-hand neighbor. "I shall have to tell you about the time I went to Cousin Dorothy's wedding luncheon. "I never had eaten waffles but once; that was at my aunt's.
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