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Next they took the soup-plates, the dinner-plates, the large platter and two vegetable dishes out into the kitchen to be made hot; they also carried out the bread-plate, the salad-bowl, and the pudding-dish, as well as the after-dinner coffee-cups and saucers.
"'Gentlemen, says I, brisk, 'I've got two dollars too much, says I an' I reck'n the cracks in them walls must 'a' winked at the notion. 'What do you say to a game o' dice on the bread-plate? I ask' 'em. "Well, one way an' another I kep' them two there for two hours. An' then, when the game was out, I knew I couldn't do nothin' else. So I stood up an' told 'em I'd go up an' let Mr.
"Bread, please," called Napoleon, who had taken advantage of the confusion to sweep the bread-plate clean. "In the name of wonder!" exclaimed the mother, snatching a half loaf from the pantry. "There! take it and eat it, and burst Do," she continued, turning to Dr. Lively, "stop your tramp, tramping round this room, and come and eat your dinner.
Just to calm herself she went and opened the slide of the range and shoved the tea-kettle a little farther on so it would begin to boil, before she opened that fat letter. She lit the lamp, too, put it on the supper-table, and changed the position of the bread-plate, covering it nicely with a fringed napkin so the bread wouldn't get dry. Everything must be ready when Father got back.
Now, take one of the articles so often disfigured with childish and hasty efforts to cover a surface with so-called "art work," such as the side of a bellows or the surface of a bread-plate, and on it carve this pattern, repeating the same-shaped holes until you fill the entire space.
Nothing at all was the matter with the contents of the cans, however, in spite of the strange process of cookery. "No dish-washing, at any rate," said Ken; "we've eaten our dishes." Kirk chose to find this very entertaining, and consumed another "bread-plate," as he termed it, on the spot.
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