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"Do you remember writing a par about Stickney, the butter-scotch man, you know, ragging him when he got his peerage?" "Yes." It was one of the best paragraphs I had ever done. A two-line thing, full of point and sting. I had been editing "On Your Way" that day, Fermin being on a holiday and Gresham ill; and I had put the paragraph conspicuously at the top of the column.
A large "butter-scotch" factory pays these rates and allows the weekly good-conduct sixpence which, however, few succeed in earning. This factory is managed by two brothers who take alternate weeks, and the younger one exacts from the girls an hour more a day than the older one.
"You saw her, Miss Policeman Flyaway?" said Aunt Madge. "And pray how did she take it?" "Just so, right in her hand." "O, you mean the money for the butter-scotch, you little tease!" "Yes," replied the child, with a roguish twinkle over the sensation she had made. "Just like little bits o' flies," said Dotty. "Don't care how folks feel. And here's her brother ready to cry; heart all broken."
"Butter-scotch!" cried Kat, with a shriek of delight. "I haven't had any in the natural life of ten coons. What bliss! Ralph you're a top!" "Thank you. I'm getting along, I see; for I suppose a top is a little higher than a trump, isn't it?"
Jelnik: it was very nice of you to remember." "Yes. I have such an excellent memory," said he, blandly. "Miss Smith, this preserved ginger is laid at your shrine. If you offer me a piece or two, I shall accept with thanks: I like preserved ginger, myself. Boris, you'll prefer butter-scotch. You may ask Miss Gaines to give you a piece."
The candy man cackled shrilly as he arranged a stock of butter-scotch that had tumbled down. "Smoke up!" said he, vulgarly. "Nothin' doin' in the complimentary line. I'm too wise to be bamboozled by a switch of hair and a newly massaged arm.
"Where did you have your purse last?" "Just before we came out of Dorlon's oyster saloon. Just before we came here for butter-scotch," replied Horace, glaring fiercely at Granny. "Are you quite sure?" "Is mine gone, too?" cried Prudy again. "Did you put mine in the same pocket?" "Yes, Prue; I put yours in the same pocket; and it's gone, too." "O, Horace!" "A pretty clean sweep, Prue."
Or is he then a slave? Or idiot?" Another time, a merry, wideawake American gent had tried the sawdust and spit it out, and had tried the Sherry and spit that out, and had tried in vain to sustain exhausted natur upon Butter-Scotch, and had been rather extra Bandolined and Line-surveyed through, when, as the bell was ringing and he paid Our Missis, he says, very loud and good-tempered: "I tell Yew what 'tis, ma'arm.
So they wandered and they wandered, more and more hungry all the time, till they came to a glade in which there was a funny little house; and what do you think it was made of? The door was made of butter-scotch, the windows of sugar candy, the bricks were all chocolate creams, the pillars of lollypops, and the roof of gingerbread.
"I've got just three. I tell you caramels are disastrous to my pocket money." "I wear out my gloves, love butter-scotch, and lost my head over a certain pair of slippers; consequence, two dollars and eight cents in my treasury," moaned Kat, with great self reproach.
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