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"I can't stand it!" he groaned, and the gum-drops began to squeeze through his fingers. "It makes him think of dimples," his wife explained, in a low tone, to Sara. "'So near and yet so far, you know," fluttered the Teacup, sympathetically. The next thing was to decide how to get their captive home.

For some distance the path was a nice, smooth taffy, that was very agreeable to walk on; but as he got nearer the mountains the ground became gravelly, the stones being jackson-balls and gum-drops; so that his boots, which were a little green when he picked them, began to hurt his feet.

"She's in the parlor," said the McGinnis, turning the back of her sack upon us. In the dim parlor a girl sat at the cracked marble centre-table weeping comfortably and eating gum-drops. She was a flawless beauty. Crying had only made her brilliant eyes brighter. When she crunched a gum-drop you thought only of the poetry of motion and envied the senseless confection.

They will write dear little notes to Gonzaldo, asking him how his cold is and how he likes gum-drops.

She was smiling, without amusement but pleasantly, and after an interval half a dozen words fell into the space between them: "I wish I had some gum-drops." "You shall!" He beckoned to a waiter and sent him to the cigar counter. "D'you mind? I love gum-drops. Everybody kids me about it because I'm always whacking away at one whenever my daddy's not around." "Not at all.

Pause. Oh, gum-drops, gum-drops! But I never allow them to eat striped candy. And of course they CAN'T, till they get their teeth, anyway. Pause. Pause. Oh, not in the least go right on. He's here writing it doesn't bother HIM. Pause. Very well, I'll come if I can. I wish she'd Pause. Oh no, not at all; I LIKE to talk but I'm afraid I'm keeping you from your affairs. Pause. Visitors? Pause.

Don't you suppose Shepler knows what he's about? there's a boy that won't be peddling shoe-laces and gum-drops off one of these neat little bosom-trays not for eighty-five or ninety-thousand years yet and Relpin, even if he was drunk, knows Shepler's deals like you know Skiplap. They'll bear the stocks all they can while they're buying up.

He stood by a lamp-post for a few minutes engaged in thought and then he turned and plunged into a small notion and news shop. A red-haired young woman, eating gum-drops, came and looked freezingly at him across the ice-bound steppes of the counter. "Say, lady," he said, "have you got a song book with this in it. Let's see how it leads off

So saying, he took from under his cloak of gold cloth, a great basket of silver filagree work, in which were cream-chocolates, and burnt almonds, and sponge-cake, and lady's fingers, and mixtures, and gingernuts, and hoar-hound candy, and gum-drops, and fruit-cake, and cream candy, and mintstick, and pound-cake, and rock candy, and butter taffy, and many other confections, amounting in all to about two hundred and twenty pounds.

He caught two of the youngsters and bumped their heads together, he chased a shrieking half dozen to a refuge behind a pile of life-preservers, he tossed a couple up in the air and pretended he was going to fling them overboard, and finally he took out a great package from his pocket and sent a shower of pink "gum-drops" raining down over the deck, and the whole boat was turned into a mad and joyful riot!