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Updated: May 21, 2025
No, he's a good feller, sure, an' wouldn't swap him for for your Will on'y when he snores. So you see it's a kindness to me letting me stop to-night." "You're a dear," Eve cried warmly, "and I won't say 'thing. Where are you going now?" "Why, I'm going to set Angel's cheese an' pickles, and put his coffee on the stove.
Soft, crumbling orange cheese, pickles, smoked sardines, chopped liver, olives, pretzels all the now-forgotten appetizers were laid out on broad silver platters. "I wish I could offer you a drink," said Bleak, "but as you know, it would be unconstitutional. With your permission, I shall have to have something. My office hours begin shortly, and some one might come in."
The boy would hand him a basket; but when his stew was set before him, there warn't no crackers in his box. So ve put him on a allowance of a dozen crackers, which is werry liberal, considerin' as pickles and pepper-sarce is throw'd in gratis.
The leaves russet, gold and crimson were dropping to the autumn-greening earth, the sunlight was as yellow as the wings of a butterfly, and on the horizon was a faint haze that shadowed the coming Indian summer. But still it was warm enough for a great spread on the lawn, and what a feast for mountain eyes chicken, turkey, cold ham, pickles, croquettes, creams, jellies, beaten biscuits.
It is of particularly fine quality, and at meals is brought in small bright-looking tubs kept for this exclusive purpose and scrupulously clean; it is then helped to each individual in small quantities, and steaming hot. The humblest meal is served with nicety, and with the rice various tasty condiments, such as pickles, salted fish, and numerous other dainty little appetizers, are eaten.
A nickel-plated cash register occupied a position in the exact centre of the general effect. The elementary senses of it all seemed to be opulence and geometrical accuracy. Across from the bar a smaller counter held a collection of plates upon which swarmed frayed fragments of crackers, slices of boiled ham, dishevelled bits of cheese, and pickles swimming in vinegar.
With the women one's chance of conversation is still worse. It seemed as though the cares of the world had been too much for them, and that all talking excepting as to business demands, for instance, on the servants for pickles for their children had gone by the board. They were generally hard, dry, and melancholy.
Seriously she began cutting the remainder of the cake into quarters. "It would be one of the biggest compliments you could pay me," she said. "But won't you have some boiled tongue with it, a little canned lobster, a pickle " "Pickles!" he interrupted. "Just cake and pickles please! I've dreamed of pickles up there.
"Those are regular young pickles," Captain Manley said to the lady he was walking with; "they are Etonians who have run away from home, and are up to all kinds of mischief, but are the pluckiest and most straightforward youngsters imaginable. I have no doubt that they are up to some trick with our black drummer."
The proprietor, who evidently thought that I was a "little off," brought me to a sense of realization by telling me that his tent was not a mule stable and that I had better get out. His voice and expression made me feel that I might be in danger of losing my pickles, so I waited not on ceremony, but beat a hasty and complete retreat.
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