peanut-shells

Updated: August 28, 2026

There he drank some fifty cups of coffee, each one the size of a thimble, and smoked as many cigarettes, their burned stubs locating his seat under the cafe awning as clearly as peanut-shells mark a boy's at the circus. I, of course, paid for both.

Francis Hopkinson Smith - The Veiled Lady and Other Men and Women