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The things kep' on an' on bein' snapped up hot-cake quick, an' the crowd beginnin' to gather outside, waitin' to get in, made 'em sort o' lose their heads an' begin buyin' sole because things was cheap bird-cages, a machine cover, odd table-leaves, an' like that. The Society was rill large then, an' what happened might 'a' been expected.
Later, my grandfather taught me to swear in English with an Irish accent, and I've been fearfully balled up ever since. It's very inconvenient." "Be serious, soldier, or I shall not cut your meat for you at dinner." "Excuse me. I forgot I was addressing a hot-cake queen. But please do not threaten me, because I'm out of the army just twenty-four hours, and I'm independent and I may resent it.
She, reading impatience and mutiny in her father's every glance, kept up throughout the meal an unwonted flow of talk. "Dad," she said, covering his plate with a crisp hot-cake for the dozenth time, "I haven't told Mr. Bond all about the claim all the reasons why we want him to take you to Bismarck;" the section-boss grunted at the "we" "so you please tell him as you're going along.
But Casey did not mind trifles of that kind, once his mind was at ease about the breakfast and he was free to slice bacon the right thickness, and mix the hot-cake batter himself. For the first time in many weeks he sang if you could call it singing over his work. When Casey Ryan sings over a breakfast fire, you may expect the bacon fried exactly right.
He could imagine the number of daring devils from whose amorous advances even a hot-cake queen was not immune. "The recipe was absurdly simple: No discipline, no hot-cakes. And there were always a sufficient number of good fellows around to squelch anybody who tried to interfere with my efficiency. By the way, I observed how hungrily you were looking out the window this morning.
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