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Updated: June 15, 2025
She stuck in her chin and threw out her chest and tried to stride. "That's the Big Boss, all right," Daddy said, laughing. "Guess it's O.K. But mind your p's and q's." "And stick together. Specially in a strange place." Grandma wearily picked up the baby. The Big Boss saw them as soon as they tiptoed into the oyster-house. "Ez," he called, "here's some nice kids. Show 'em around, will you?"
"I'm sure I don't know any thing about that," was returned. "He is a generous fellow, and I cannot but like him. Indeed, every one likes him." A few evenings afterwards I met Peyton again. "Come, let us have some oysters," said he. I did not object. We went to an oyster-house, and ate and drank as much as our appetites craved. He paid the bill!
When they woke, mush simmered on the cookstove and a bottle of milk stood on the table. It took time to feed Sally and wash dishes and make beds; and then Dick and Rose-Ellen ran over to the nearest long oyster-house and peeked through a hole in the wall. Down each side, raised above the fishy wet floor, ran a row of booths, each with a desk and step, made of rough boards.
Very often the older men would linger after the ladies had departed, and even reassemble with those, and discuss the wines ad libitum, if not ad nauseam, while the young men, after having escorted the ladies to their respective homes, would meet again at some oyster-house or go out on a lark, in imitation of the young English bloods in the favorite play of Tom and Jerry.
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