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"Prove it!" replied Herb, promptly. "What is this bright idea?" "Well, you know that just about this time they cook nice, hot doughnuts down at Mattatuck's bakery. Delicious doughnuts! Um, yum!" and Jimmy's round countenance assumed a rapturous expression. "And the idea was, that you'd go down there and blow the crowd to hot doughnuts, was it?" queried Joe. "Blow, nothing!" exclaimed Jimmy.
And next year he is going to rebuild the wing of the house and put on a big piazza, where we can have rocking-chairs and a hammock " "Yum! yum!" murmured Sam. "The hammock for mine, when I call." "Built for two, I suppose," remarked Dick dryly. "Dick Rover!" cried Grace, and blushed, "He'll want it for himself and Dor " began Sam. "Here comes Tom," interrupted Dick hastily.
There was one cloud in the heaven of their happiness. Geoffrey was inclined to tease Asako about her native country. His ideas about Japan were gleaned chiefly from musical comedies. He would call his wife Yum Yum and Pitti Sing. He would fix the end of one of her black veils under his hat, and would ask her whether she liked him better with a pigtail.
"And the chicken salad?" called the merciless hero, "and the sandwiches, too?" "Oh, this is too much," moaned Connie Bennett. "It isn't so much as you might think," shouted Pee-wee. "He must be hollow from head to foot," said Margaret. "Yes, eat everything," wailed Minerva in the final spirit of utter resignation. "Yum yum," called Pee-wee. "Oh, boy, it's good."
Speed was reduced as they started to enter the open bayou. Jerry, up in the bow, was using the pole as a sounding line, and calling out: "Two feet! One and three-quarters! One and a half! Hey! Hold up, there! We're on an oyster bar, for sure!" And the grating noise that immediately followed told that they had lost the narrow channel again. "Oysters! Yum! yum!
The aroma of it awakened the hungry men. "This must be heaven, for it smells like mother's cooking!" declared Slim. "Oh, yum, yum! Oh, boy!" "The old lady ain't no angel," put in Jemmy; "but she sure can cook." "And angels can't, I guess," added Torrance, grinning. "Say, boy!" grinned Rosy, "didn't you ever eat angel cake?" Whistler found his chance to speak to Mr.
Me got velly good cabbagee," he said persuasively and lowered his pole. "No thank you, John, not to-day. Me wait for white man." "Me bling pleasant for lilly missee," said the Chow; and unknotting a dirty nosecloth, he drew from it an ancient lump of candied ginger. "Lilly missee eatee him ... oh, yum, yum! Velly good. My word!"
"Duck, stuffed with sage and onions!" murmured Giant, patting himself in the region of the stomach. "No stuffings in this," cried the doctor's son. "I just want pure duck -a nice brown leg, -yum." "Say, you make me duck-hungry already!" cried Whopper. "Let's go on, unless we are going to stay here for the rest of the day."
Both had served long in prison, and were old men; but the day's work they were habitually capable of won Mrs. Mortimer's approval. Gow Yum, twenty years before, had had charge of the vegetable garden of one of the great Menlo Park estates. His disaster had come in the form of a fight over a game of fan tan in the Chinese quarter at Redwood City.
"If we go to Japan now, we shall be in time to see the cherry-blossoms." "Why, little Yum Yum," cried her husband, delighted, "are you tired of Pharaohs?" "Egypt is very interesting," said Asako, correctly; "it is wonderful to think of these great places standing here for thousands and thousands of years. But it makes one sad, don't you think? Everybody here seems to have died long, long ago.
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