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"What does what makes a sharp knife, father?" said Jacob, his cheek very much swollen with sweet-cake. The father winked at his guest and said, "Having your nose put on the grindstone." Jacob slipped from his chair with the piece of sweet-cake in his hand, and going close up to Mordecai, who had been totally silent hitherto, said, "What does that mean putting my nose to the grindstone?"
Now Philip was a silly, good-natured fellow, and fancied that his little cousin, Henric, of whom he was very fond, was ill-treated by his father. So he took an opportunity of slipping a sweet-cake into his pouch, from the supper-board, with which he slily stole to Henric's crib. "Never mind my cross uncle, sweet cousin," said he: "see, I have brought you a nice cake." "Oh!
"Indeed we do not wish for any tea," said Miss Ogilvie, seeing Elvira look as black as thunder; "we have only just dined." "But Elfie will have some sweet-cake; Elfie likes auntie's sweet- cake, eh?" said the old man. "No, thank you," said Elfie, glumly, though in fact she did care considerably for sweets, and was always buying bonbons. "No cake!
This problem is far too deep for Freddy, and he takes a bite of sweet-cake in sign that he does not think of solving it. Frank looks at him gloomily for a moment, and then determines that he can grapple with the difficulty more successfully after he has had tea. "Send up the supper, Bridget.
Moss, a neighbour, would lend her waffle-iron, and she could get a few eggs, she believed she could manage it still. "But we haven't the eggs, child," she said; "and I don't believe any power under heaven can get him to come away from that raising frolic." Waffles, a species of sweet-cake used on such festivals in America. Nor did Nettie. It was to no power under heaven that she trusted.
'Take it, Peasie, take it! rustled the pipal; 'I caught it from a Prince's turban as a reward for your kindness. Then she took the pearls, fastened them round her pretty slender throat, and went on her way rejoicing. Farther on she came to the fire, burning brightly, and on it was a girdle with a nice hot sweet-cake.
The Boy hung one of them up, by its long leg, near the child's head at the side of the bunk, and then conferred with O'Flynn. "The Colonel's made some little kind o' sweet-cake things for the tree. I could spare you one or two." "Divil a doubt Kaviak'll take it kindly, but furr mesilf I'm thinkin' a pitaty's a dale tastier." There was just one left in camp.
Woodhouse's health, cheerful communications about her mother's, and sweet-cake from the beaufet "Mrs. Cole had just been there, just called in for ten minutes, and had been so good as to sit an hour with them, and she had taken a piece of cake and been so kind as to say she liked it very much; and, therefore, she hoped Miss Woodhouse and Miss Smith would do them the favour to eat a piece too."
A benevolent old soul, I am sure, who in a New England village would be universally called "Aunty," and would lay all the rising generation under obligation to her for doughnuts and sweet-cake.
"If you put it so straight, I'll say No save at my best, and my best is my rarest But come, come, we are not going into Inneraora on a debate-parade; let us change the subject Do you know I'm like a boy with a sweet-cake in this entrance to our native place.
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