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And the wide lobby, when at length he reached it, was no better; it looked scarcely more promising to his quest than the traditional haystack to the searcher of needles. Here were set the ice-cream freezers and the other paraphernalia of delight, and about them was a struggling mob. Varney circled the throng with a roving eye. Of the lady he saw no sign anywhere.
Nearly all of the more prominent families owned freezers while many of those who were freezerless did not go to church, anyway. From which it would seem that, in Bainbridge at least, the righteous had prospered. On this hot morning, therefore, Desire collected Mr. McClintock's belief alone.
He had not pictured them as travelling on their private islands surrounded by mammoth icing cakes five stories high, and towers of chocolate. He had not fancied them sitting on ice cream freezers and tossing the emptied receptacles from them. Pee-wee had told his friend of the morning that they would both vote for Keekie Joe and that Keekie Joe should be the patrol leader.
As the missus says, them freezers is always the worst when they thaws." "Seems to me," Cullen observed solemnly "seems to me the drought ain't the only trouble in the district; and old Cold-blood, coming here listening to all we've got to say, has got in ahead of us somehow, and is playing a lone hand for all he's worth. He's bluffed Murray." "Wha-at?" Marmot exclaimed. "For why not?"
Besides these, there were three packages containing flags and fireworks, marked "Delayed Rush." He closed the office door, tacked to it a card announcing he would return inside of half an hour, and loaded into the wagon the entire morning's freight except the two freezers intended for the picnic grounds.
As the men exchanged opinions, "Freezers" appeared solitary creatures isolated monuments of awe-inspiring goodness and purity, and I felt thankful that circumstances had made me only the Little Missus a woman, down with the bushmen at the foot of all pedestals, needing all the love and fellowship she could get, and with no more goodness than she could do with just enough to make her worthy of the friendship of "rough chaps like us."
"The very thing!" said Jacob. "I will charter two river steamboats, pack them full of these unfortunate children and say ten thousand dolls and drums and a thousand freezers of ice cream, and give them a delightful outing up the Sound. The sea breezes on that trip ought to blow the taint off some of this money that keeps coming in faster than I can work it off my mind."
"Must be a bit off for their husbands," he said; and his apologies were forgotten in the absorbing topic of "Freezers." "A Freezer on a pedestal," he had said. "Goddess," the world prefers to call it; and tradition depicts the bushman worshipping afar off. But a "Freezer" is what he calls it to himself, and contrary to all tradition, goes on his way unmoved. And why shouldn't he?
She opened the kitchen door, and to those within explained loudly what dangers had been averted, directing that both freezers be placed indoors under guard; then she rejoined Noble, who was walking slowly back to the front yard. "I guess it's pretty lucky you happened to be hangin' around out here," she said. "I guess that's about the luckiest thing ever happened to me.
The ice-cream freezers, ready to yield up their precious contents, were set away in a cool place, and Victoria, a pretty mulatto girl who had come to the house an orphan child, was busy carving red and white roses out of a little pile of turnips and delicately shaped blood-beets, intended to ornament divers plates of cold turkey and chicken salad.
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