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Updated: May 17, 2025
"'It's foolish question 786245," quoted Cupid with his weariest sneer. "I'm the guy what put the nut in cokernut! I guess there'll be more where this come from in the sweet by and by." Win eyed him anxiously. Now where had she heard that quotation about the "foolish question?" Why, it was a slang phrase of Mr. Logan's.
After so much silence it was a treat to hear the sound of his own loud, jolly voice, and he gave himself the treat freely. "You're from the country, sir," said the waiter, politely. "Yes, bull's eye," said Dale, with boisterous good-humor. "Hand him out a cokernut. But may I ask how you guessed my place of origin so pat?" "Well, sir. I don't know, sir. Haven't had you here before, I think."
If it has, then I am sure the palm is awarded to the deity who gave to the human race the tree that bears the coconut. Passing a confectioner's shop, I saw a tempting packet labelled "Cokernut Toffee." I bought a pennyworth and gave it to my little girl, and "I laye a-thynkynge, a-thynkynge, a-thynkynge."
He never let on he was pleased, but he was. He was freer nor I expected him to be with the groceries, but he eat a tin of salmon all by his lone, and in the middle of the night, at 3.15 a.m., he was took horrid bad, and 7 of the chaps made him take their private meddicines, and he could not turn out for physical exercise in the morning, but is now much better, and has made a good tea, and is eating 1 lb. cokernut lozenges at this very minute.
Was this something the reason why he had not yet kissed her? "It's got to do with the Dutchy wot landed me this slip over the cokernut" he indicated some plaster strappings that decorated the seat of intelligence "with a revolver-butt, when they rushed the Fort. After 'e'd plugged at me wiv' 'is last cartridge an' missed."
"Studyin' character," said the lady with great contempt; "losing your character, you silly old pump " "My dear," remonstrated the old gentleman. "Don't 'my dear' me," said Mrs. Mole; "you're gwine off your silly old cokernut, you bald-headed old coon." "Mrs. Mole!" "You go to dat dancin' garding for to see dem gals jump about and dance and make fools ob demselves, ignorant critters."
"Always the w'y," he groaned, moving back to safer quarters. "There's a fly in every hointment. An' we're as apt to 'it each other as a woman at a cokernut shy." A distant burst of firing came down the breeze from toward the trestle. Huggins leaped to his feet and climbed to the pile of wood, and recklessly on to the top of the water tank.
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