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I'm goin' to have the cook make 'em as big cakes as he can, and put lots of frostin' and chocolate on 'em; and I've sent to town for twenty pounds of candy the real fancy kind, that'll quite likely make 'em all sick, but they'll love it; and I've bought 'em a lot of things they don't need and that no one would think of givin' 'em. They're going to have a real party when I come to see 'em, John."
Heman's a slick article, and when he sees there's danger of losin' the frostin' on the cake he takes care to scrape the burnt part off the bottom.
He had given up sugar, although he hated his coffee without it, and he had a little boy's appetite for pies and cakes. "When the war is over," he told Teddy, "we will order a cake that's as high as a house, and we will eat it together." Teddy giggled. "With frostin'?" "Yes.
It was kep' by a Chink, and the star play in the window was a kind of two-story cake with frostin' all over the place on top and down the sides, and on the bottom fur all I knew, it looked that rich. And it had cocoanut mixed in with it.
"Well, time went on, an' Jimmy grew tall an' good lookin'. Then came the girl an' she <i>was</i> a girl, too. 'Course, Jimmy, bein' as how he'd had all the frostin' there was goin' on everythin' so fur, carried out the same idea in girls, an' picked out the purtiest one he could find rich old Townsend's daughter, Bessie.
I'd been trainin' fur that cake fur twenty odd year, and proddin' my imagination up fur the last ten weeks. "I et that all, and I et another one with jelly, and a bunch of little round ones with frostin' and raisins, and a bottle of brandied peaches, and about a dozen cream puffs, and half a lemon pie with frostin' on top, and four or five Charlotte rushes.
Not that I could count on my ruddy thatch frostin' up much in a couple of years; but somehow nothing but gray seemed to fill the bill. I'd planned on gettin' one of them gray tweed suits such as Mr. Robert wears back from London, and a long gray ulster that'd make me look tall, and a gray cloth hat to match, and gray gloves. Get the picture?
But at last, after many groanings and gruntings, she rose to her feet, and took the cake from Mrs. Bobbsey. "I'll put some mo' frostin' on it right away, ma'am," she said. "An' I hopes nobody else runs inter me," she went on with a laugh. "I shuah did feel skeered dat Bert was hurt bad." They could all laugh at the happening now, and after Mr.
Most of it was hot air that she said Benny'd been givin' to her about me, and how sweet Mildred thought I was. That should have been my cue; but I was too busy with the cake. "Miss Morgan is such a dear girl, isn't she?" says Aunt Laura. "Uh-huh," says I, pokin' in some frostin' that had lodged on the outside. "You are quite well acquainted with her, aren't you?" says she. "Um-m-m-m," says I.
When we was young ones together, he went to school and I went to work. He got the frostin' on the cake, and I got the burnt part next to the pan. He went to college, and I went to sea. He.... However, you mustn't think I find fault with him for that. I sp'iled him as much as anybody, I guess. 'Twas later on that we.... Well, never mind that, either.
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