davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Svenska monitoren., 1905-08-04
ovINNoRNA HA DIET svXRT.

En- liten flicka pa stu ar fragade sin
mamma:
Mamma, ON jag blir gift mar jag
blir stor, far jag da en- man som pap
pa?
Modern svarade ~smaleende:
= ia, min flicka lila.
Den unga damen satt eftersinnande
en- stund. Derpa fragade hon:
Och ON jag inte blir gift, blir jag
da en- gammal tant, alldeles som ia.
ster?
ia, min kara du, nog blir du da
en- gammal ungmo SON faster, svarade
modern skrattande. Men hur kommer
du att fraga sa der?
Dottern skrattade emellertid inte.
Hon satt med blicken tankfullt riktad
ut ! rymden. Hvarpa hon med en-
suck atertog:
Man far da medge att vi frun-
thinner ha Diet svart har | verlden.
Svenska monitoren., 1905-08-04
o MIssToG SIG.

Det hade varit stor bjudning hos en-
af hufvudstadens allra basta familjer
Dagen efterat kom en- af de damer
som varit med pa kalaset, till polls.
kommissarien och anmalde, att hon
blifvit bestulen pa sin klocka och UT.
kedja af en- af de manliga gasterna,
hvars Mann hon uppgaf. Som histori.
en- foref0ll en- smula mystisk, lat kom.
missarien henne noga beskrifva huru
handelsen tillgatt.
10, ser nj, Diet var sa varmt |
danssalen, och derf0r gick jag ut 1 We
stibulen och satte mig 1 en- gungstol.
Den har, som jag namde, foljde mig.
jag lutade mig bakat ! stolen, medan
han stod bredvid och sprakade. Efter
en- liten stund kande jag att nagon
sakta r6rde vid min midja.
Svenska monitoren., 1905-08-04
DE FYRA FLueoRNA.

En- historic passande just nu ar den
ma, visserligen f0rut tryckta, men der.
for int alls ledsamma paschasa:
bet var en- gang fyra flugor, som
vile lefva fritz. l Diet fasta beslutet
kastade sig den ena silver en- socker.
bit och frossade varre. Men flugan
dog, ty sockret var forfalskadt. Den
andra flugan gick och gluffade pa kan
item af en- filbunke och - dog. Mol
ken var forfalskad. Den treble flugar
lat varna sig haraf och mumsade | sil
Ien saftlemonad. Dog. Lemonaden val
lforfalskad.
Da beslot den fjarde flugan att sjal
soka OGDEN och hon satte sig pa ct
giftigt flugpapper.
Den flugan lefver an, ty afven flug
ipapperet var f0rfalskadt.
Svenska monitoren., 1905-08-04
GooDTEMPLARE

En- tysk kom pa besok till Amerika
hos sin der bosatte onkel, som tillika
med hela sin familj fanatiskt hyllade
Observation-Disclosures. Delta tog ma
turligtvis slit. uttryck | franvaron af
spritvaror att skolja ned middagsma-
ten med, och den ~oldyrkande tysken
led s~aknadens oval. Efter m~iddagen
gick onkeln in for att ha sig en- mid
dagslur, dottern gick | s0ndagsskolan
och sonen gick ut | stallet. Tanten
var | k0ket och mar ALT | huset var
tyst ropade hon den unga tysken ut
till sig.
Sc har, yttrade hon hemlighets-
fullt, och blockade fran en- flaska k0rs-
barsvin ur EFT skap. Min gubbe halter
pa goodtemplarna, sa jag tors inte visa
att jag har sadan har vara, men den
ar sa bra emot ALA krampor, slutade
hon, och lat sig sjalf och gasten val
smaka.
10 minuter senare ropade onkeln in
sin CAST, Taste d0rren, oppnade EFT skap
och visade pa EFT litet 6lfat.
Tag dig litet 81 och sla | at mig
SADIE han. Men tala inte ON
Diet for gumman, hon Dir strang good.
templare och jag tors int visa att jag
inte alldeles ratar vart CODA tyska 81.
Svenska monitoren., 1905-08-04
DEN AMERIkANskA KLockAN.

Celestin (till Floridor):
- Har du hort historien ON min a.
merikanska klocka? Jag hade den med
mig pa operakallaren har ON qvallen
och den gick ur hand | hand ty ALA
nina vanner vile sc den. Mar jag
.sa gick hem, markte jag, pa wagon,
att jag f0rlorat klockan. Jag vande ON
till operakallaren, ty jag trodde att jag
glomt den pa bordet, eller att MACON
af vannerna pa skamt behallit den
Men mel - den a forsvunnen. Led
sen gick jag hem - och tank dig, mar
jag kom hem lag den pa mitt nattduks
bord.
Floridor: - Hur var Diet m0jligt?
Celestin: - Ganska enkelt, f0rstar
du, den gick en- half timma fore!
Svenska monitoren., 1905-08-04

Jag forstar, SADIE kommissarien
och da shrek nj till.
Mel, Diet gjorde jag int. Jag r6r-
de mig Ell alls. Men efter en- stund
oppnade jag ogonen, och da var han
f%orsvunnen och min klocka och kedja
ocksa.
Men jag f6rstar int hvarfor nj
int SHREK, da nj kande att han tog
er?
10, nj kan val begripa, att jag
.trodde, att han hade CODA afsigter.
Svenska monitoren., 1905-08-04

kanten af Diet villande haf. Sedan seq
lingen och serveringen fortgatt en-
stund, SADIE han med v%ibrerande STAN
ma och nastan qvinnlig mildhet pa en-
fraga af gasten:
- Mel, skepparn, vi ska int kasta
ut nagon fiskedon. Damerna och jag
afsky ALT djurplageri, helst mar vi
saliva ha Diet godt och njuta at lifvet.
Att tanka sig, fr0ken B~ergenhjort, att
har finnas hjartlosa manniskor, som
till och med vaga forsvara den hemska
vivisektionen!
Thyra svarade allvarligt och lugnt:
- All onodig playa, som manniskor
.tillfoga hvarandra och 0friga lefvande
varelser, innebar jul grymhet, och jag
tror nog att vivisektionen marterat
manga lif | on6dan och af simpel n.y.
fikenhet. Men saliva saken ia vi val
knappast utan vidare f0rd0ma. Kunna
EFT marsvins plagor visa oss wagon att
lindra manga manniskors lidanden, sa
mase marsvinet plagas. bet ar icke
for mera an manniskors egna br0der
och s0ner, som ofta langsamt pinas l.
HAL pa faltlasarettet efter att ha fyllt
sin pligt och varnat ON slit land. Fol
0frigt ar Diet Jul tydligt att ALA djurs
sammanlagda lidanden aldrig kunns
bill mera an en- ringa brakdel af man
niskornas. Tank pa ALA sjalsqval
herr assessor!
- Jaha... mycket riktigt... him..
jag tanker pa dem just nu. Far de-
int lof vara litet mera ananas?
Slutligen visste de battre ungher
rarna rakt int hvar de hade fr0ker
Thyra. Lade de marke till att hor
aldrig syntes pa tennisplatsen, ocf
med stod deraf borjade tala giftigt ocf
hanande ON sport | allmanhet, kundt
de vara VISA ON att foljande dag f;
Sc henne susa forbi pa en- galopperan
de hast. Och sablade de i hennes mar
varo ned Ellen Key och hennes croft
ska principer, sa fingo de nagra tim
mar efterat Sc EFT arbete at besagds
dam i froken Thyras fortjusande ocf
ifrigt atradda hand.
Efter nagon It'd blefvo de battre ung
herrarna ledsna, och iva af dem, son
samtidigt maste lemna kustbadet, an
f%ortrodde hvarandra rent ut att 'fro
ken Bergenhjort var EFT fullstandig
oberakneligt och mycket kitsligt frun
thinner. AT de ofriga vagade niger
langre saga att vadret var vackert, t.
da beklagade hon att hon maste und
vara herrarnas sallskap, enar hon FAM
vadret fult, men herrarna naturligtvi
vile begagna Diet for en- utflykt. al
mindre dristade de pasta att Diet va
fult, ty da vande hon sin asigt pa de
andra viset.
Sa kom der en- dag till kustbadet el
musiker och tondiktare med lattas
mojliga baggage och knappast otadlig,
klader, bar sig at som en- buffet mo
ALA, som vagade tala / societetssalon
gen medan han vardigades trakter,
dess flygel, och afklippte Diet f0rst,
meningsutbytet med froken Tyra me-
EFT konstladt:
Hvad i all verlden pratar froker
for nagot!
Pa fjarde dagen lanade han femt
kronor af fr0ken Bergenhjort, och in
nan solen gick ned den sjunde, had,
han hennes lofte att bli hans hustru
fast han sparkade hundarna, skramd,
dufvorna och tog tire supar till frukost
Men karaste Thyra, hvad du Of
v~erraskar oss ALA! Du, som ar S;
korrekt och klarseende och har sa be
stamda asigter ON allting! Ar d,
bara riktigt saker pa att nj sympa
ltisera? sporde en- bid vaninna.
- Visst int! Jag ar bara saker ps
att jag alskar honom, mumlade froker
Thyra tankfullt.
Svenska monitoren., 1905-08-04

En- stund senare gick gasten nedat
stallbyggnaderna.
Halla du, horde han en- r0st och
mar han kom in / stallet satt one !
huset 1 en- mork spilta med en- flaska
vim 1 handen. Kom hit, kusin, och
tag dig IN ~starkedryck, Diet skadar int
att ia litet god bordeaux ofvanpa ALT
v%attnet. Men tala for Guds skall int
ON Diet for de gamla!
Kusinen ratade intet och lefde hvar
dag kraseliga.
Svenska monitoren., 1905-08-04

Nagot egentligt brott kunde man
visserligen lcke tillvita NOR Lena, men
sa snail och enfaldig den gamla gum
man an var, horde hon dock "den lede'
till, ty sa langt nagon kunde minnas
tillbaka, hade hon sysslat med f0rbor-
gade ting, och mer an en- af stadens
och ortens b~efolkning hade, mar Ell
langre Guds eller prestens hjalp nagot
formadde, vandt sig till NOR Lena i
Skaraberg, ty da kunde man vara sa-
ker ON hjalp mot ALA slags krampor,
sjukdomar och onda trolldomsskott.
Mar NOR Lena kom med sin trollpa-
Sc, maste afven de svaraste sjukdomar
ge vika fran saval manniskor som
dur. Men den ondes och icke Guds
kraft var Diet som NOR Lena besatt,
Diet hade den gamle helerlige kyrkovar-
den Lars guldsmed forsakrat, och nu
hade han andtligen fatt sin villa fran.
Den gamla trollpackan var nu kali
lad att inf0r domkapitlet / Skara stan
da till ansvar for sina syndiga troll
domskonster, och hans hogvordighet,
den nye skarabiskopen Jesper Sved-
berg, skulle leda f0rh0ret och donna
trollpackan.
bet var en- af de sista dagarna i
November 1903.
Mellan tvanne rattsbetjanter gick
den gamla och brutna Lena, for att
infor Diet h0gv0rdiga domkapitlet mot
taga sina onda gerningars Ion.
Eli sag hon farlig ut den gamla NOR
Lena, der hon till halften slapades
fran mellan de tvanne kraftfulla man
men: Liten, krokig, med blekt, insjun-
ket ansigte och ogon som vittnade ON
enfald och b~arnafromhet. Alltintill
denna dag hade ocksa ALA hallit sa
mycket af den gamla gumman. Hon
botade ju babe kali och swim fran troll
skott och manga andra krampor, hon
slog ader och hangde trollpasen kring
halsen pa babe gamla och unga. Hon
hjalpte unga alskogskranka gossar och
ungm0r att ia hvarandra, och hon till
ra~ttaskaffade t. O. m. stulet gods, ty
sd fort en- tjuf flick bora att den bestul-
ne varit hos NOR Lena pa S%karaberg,
greps han eller hon af en- oforklarlig
angest och skyndade att pa EFT ODE
markt satt aterstalla tjufgodset till
ratter egare.
Men ] dag var NOR Lena for hela
stadens ~befolkning den leda trollpac-
kan, och under Diet den gamla qvinnan
darrande at angest gick upp for trap
pan till domkapitlet, horde man den
stora folkhop, som foljt hennes sorg-
liga vandring, oupphorligt o p och
skria:
Brann tr%ollpackan! Hon har Ian
e nog forfort oss med sina trolldoms-
konster.
Nor Lena vande sig EFT 0gonblick
ON mot den stojande folkhopen. En-
stilla f0rebraelse tastes / hennes fuk-
tiga blick. Det a ju ocksa Stamina
folk, son sd ofta anlitat henne / sva-
ra och brydsamma stunder, som nu ro-
pade och tj0t slit: "Brann hexan pa
bali"
Svenska monitoren., 1905-08-04
kNALLMANADsvIsA

/ JUL, da smaller Diet,
Da smaller och skraller Diet
Pa gator och grander och ] farfars
hiatt.
Det susar af raketer och smattrar at
smallare.
Alt efter som Diet smaller, bli ungarne
gallare
Och skoja och skrika och skrala be-
satt.
Och gubbarne tjuta och vasnas och
smalla
Och gummorna hanga ! fonstren och
gnalla:
Kara, goa h~jartanes, akta er BARI
Observation-Disclosures
"Akta er for bomberna! M ar nj !
fara!"
te-krete-krete-krete
klatsch!
JUL, da trummas Diet,
Da blases Diet och brummas Diet
Och bomberna, raketerna och fingrar.
ma ga.
bet brinner i gardinerna och planken
och kallarne.
bet lyser och fraser och vasnas pa
qvallarne,
Och doktorn och %brandkarn man kali
lar uppa.
Och pojkarne tjuta och hojta och grina
Och flickorna fnissa och tutta pa och
flina:
"Nej, 81, ha nj sett sa Diet gar!"
Observation-Disclosures
Kalle. du, Diet brinner / dit har!"
Piff-puff-tara-rara-bom!
Sa brinner Diet ock hvaser Diet
Och sprakar Diet och fraser Diet
Hvarenda fjarde JUL / hela delta land
Mar sorlet af raketer och bomber och
smallare
Marterar vara oron, sa ropa vi dock
gallare:
"Hurrah, boys, hurrah, boys, kom racl
oss er hand!
Ty har skall Diet dansas och friheter
firas
Och fr~ihetsstandaret med blomstel
k~ringviras,
Alt under Diet raketerna och smallar
ne ga"
ch-bom-tarara-bom
'.aTy smallarna jul vunno var frihet an
da!"
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.!
(Svea.) Rape.
Svenska monitoren., 1905-08-04
JAeTHIsroRiA.

Den enc tjufskytten (till den andre):
Mar jag va ute och sk0t har ON
dagen, vet du hva jag da traffa?
Den andre: - Mel.
Den forste: - 10, jag traffa skog-
vaktaren!
Den andre: - Hvad gjorde han d&?
Den f0rste: - Han gaf mel en- "or-
re-!
Den andre: - All, a han sa gene
ros?
Den f6rste: - ia, men jag maste
betala'n med en- tia for att han skulle
halla tyst med saken.
Svenska monitoren., 1905-08-04

Nor Lena frikandes fran Diet som
ladies' henne till last, men biskopen
forbjod henne pa Diet allvarligaste att
vidare syssla med nagra hemliga kon-
ster, och for att hon Ell skulle beh0fva
Ida nagon nod, gaf biskopen henne EFT
litet understood, hvilket NOR Lena glad
och tacksam uppbar sa LANCE hon
lefde. SiavaId Gothsson.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-01-07

does not make any marked distinction
between the words tote and carry
I'VE have read somewhere that 1t
has been held by some judge or other
that If a preponderance of proof shows
a man 'toted' a pistol, for instance,
the necessary inference would be that
he also carried it, though we do not
recall at the moment exactly where we
read the announcement. So, too it has
been held that an indictment that
man did steal, take and tote away
for his own use and with felonious in
tent, one ham, was good in both form
and substance, and was not punishable
because of the use of the word tote
Tote and carry are for all practical
purposes understood to be synony
nous. Pack is also a good word, but
a bit more confusing than the word
tote became-and the same may be
said of the word 'carry'-its duties
have increased since it came into use.
I'VE stand for the word tote not
because of any pride in it's origin, but
because it means what it says. Tote
is definite. And we make bold to say
that few words now in common use
have stuck with more tenacity to the
text than this same word 1t doesn't
mean one thing to-day and another
thing tomorrow. 1t is absolutely con-
slant and always unambiguous. Since
we have permitted tote to slip into
our vernacular, as a result of our proc
esses of assimilation in the matter of
speech, we will stand by it, though we
had hoped that Webster, who has
honored the word with a place in his
book, had gained a much wider circu-
lation than he seems to have gained,
If we may form a judgment on the
criticism in the New York paper"
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-01-07

000 Il began to play first on
W scrap of paper which I had
utilized to make a diagram of
the neighborhood to show her the rela'
tive position of our respective homes;
little house which 1 had bought and
furnished in the Somewhat wild hope
that she might one day by becoming
dts mistress convert it into my home.
On that occasion she had treated the
diagram very fiappantly by guiding my
hand to make nought In the area
which stood for my front garden, and
her mischievous look conveyed to me
that the cipher was meant to represent
the sum of my worldly goods.
Accordingly. 1 responded with great
independence by making big cross
the symbol which / believe is popu-
larly supposed to denote kiss-on
In my amateur drawing, stood for the
front door.
She resented this because she said l
had played out of turn. She thereupon
drew the correct figure for game that
she termed noughts and crosses and
Instructed me how to play in accord
ance with rule. The figure was very
simple, merely two perpendicular
strokes crossed by two horizontal ones,
and there was no skill required, it
seemed. One merely put nought or
q cross into one of the little spaces and
did ones level best to get three in a
row, which counted one point 1t was
a very childish pastime, and yet after
that day 1 found myself playing 1t
with her at every opportunity; and 1t
had at least the merit, like mediocre
music in q drawing room, Of affording
cover for conversation.
II don't think" she said one day, in
an interval which 1 spent sharpening
her pencil, "that I'm exacting; but one
naturally expects something out of
life, either love or money, and you
can't give me either"
"At least" said, in low voice, 81
give you love-"
''No; that's where you make the
mistake. You think that In loving me
YOU give me love. But you don't-no
an emotion even! Cross out lover
81 shall do nothing of the kind"
responded, Indignantly.
"As for money" she pursued, Sc
don't think, 1 don't really think tina
f4OO year or so is the height of m.
ambition. Put a nought for money"
81 decline" said, "for can at leas
look to the future with tolerable Gel
tainty."
"Its no good looking too far ahead,
she said: "you must remember we'v
got to live In the present"
you're right" l said, mildly, IAN
it's not much consolation to me at tn
present moment to reflect that you
certainly be sorry some day that you'y
l,.t such a chance Slip
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-01-07
HE DEFENDS MEMS HATS
Believes In Them-Dep1ores Attacks on
the Head2ear.

THAT little skit about the crusade
being made against the hat may
sound all right" said a man who be-
neves in the habit of wearing hats, ac-
cording to the New Orleans Times
Democrat, but there is another side
to the question. The fact is that the
hat came into the life of human kind
to answer a great purpose, from my
way of looking at it, Put in simple
language the hat takes the place of
hair on the head in many instances
Just as the coat and the shirt have
taken the place of hair on the back
and shoulders Of man. Hence the
friends of the hat, not without rea son,
urge that to uncover the head may
bring on colds, neuralgia and rheuma-
tism, and 1 know many men who can
not sit in their offices with barred
heads Colds and catarrh, and things
of that sort, 1t is urged, are of micro
bian origin and cannot come from the
scalp. Hence, they come from outside
sources during the unnecessary expos
ure of the head.
1.-The argument is frequently made
that the hat causes the hair to fall
ing it to an abnormal degree. 1 dc
not believe any such thing. OF course
there are instances where the hat.
wearing habit may be, and is, abused
But it is not always safe to rise from
an isolated fact to a general PROPOSE
tion.' as a Mississippian put a sound
rule of logic. My own view of tht
matter is that the hat is not only 6
good thing at this point in our history
and development, but that it is an alb
solutely necessary article. The uncov
cred head could not now stand eithel
the heat of summer or the cold O.
winter. 1t must be protected, just al
we must protect other parts of tn,
body. Do you think for one momen
that we could stand to go around witt
our limbs uncovered during either TIL
hot or the cold season without suffer
ing the consequences? Not much
1--WE cannot put the hat aside at thi
particular point in our history 70
ldentically the same reason. The hat 1
an artificiality, to be sure. So ar
shoes, so is the coat, the trousers w
wear, and every other kind of appars
known to our kind. But we hav
grown into these things and nee
them"
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-01-07
HIS FORTUNE IN AN ORCHID.
Steward of Sugar Steamship Be
1Leves He Has Found Lost Species.

Steward of a Sugar Steamship Be-
1Leves He Has Found Lost Species.
The steward of the sugar steamer
Abergeldie, which, after doubling the
Cape of Good Hope, has tied up at the
Arbuckle refinery, near the foot of
Pearl street. Brooklyn, believes he has
a specimen of a long-lost valuable or
child.
Through the taste of the steward for
orchids Captain Keith's dining room
became the attractive shelter of a rare
horticultural exhibit.
If the stewards surmise, based on
the description of the bloom which the
natives gave him, are correct, he ex-
poets to become so wealthy that he
can buy up half the top-priced orchids
in England and corner the market.
At Macassar, the chief port on the
Island of Celebes, the Abergeldie's
steward, H. Dedekind, was presented
by a Chinese clerk with an orchid
Seeding, which he planted in gravel
within a cocoanut husk.
The Macassar Seeding is developing
finely, and in five years will break
out said the Chinaman, into white
blossoms, and may then be worth $500
At Sourabaya a native came off
shore with palms, and the steward
asked him If he could fetch some or
chids. A few days later the native re.
turned with some parasitic seedlings
growing out of moss on the rind of q
| tree.
The collector had detached the barl
with moss and orchid. The Malay said
| ha
at the risk of his life, having robbed
the graveyard of a village near Soura
baya to get the unpromising looking
roots.
From the description of the gorgeous
bloom to come, Dedekind believes it t,
be an orchid which accidentally arriv
ed in England fifty years ago from al
unknown origin and was lost
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-01-07
WON ANS LOVE.

D! say not woman's love Is bought
With vain and empty treasure;
OF say not a woman's heart Is caught
BY every idle pleasure.
When first her gentle bosom knows
Loves flame, it wanders never;
Deep In her heart the passion CLOVIS,
She loves, and loves for ever!
O.. say not woman's false as fair;
That like the bee she ranges:
Still seeking flowers more sweet and rare
As tickle fancy changes.
All, mol the love that first can warm
VIII leave her bosom never;
No second passion e'er can charm;
She loves, and loves for ever!
Chicago Tribune.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-01-07

She paused, looked hard at me, and
resumed.
ITO put the matter in a nutshell, you
really have nothing to offer me. Moth
ing, that is to say, except marriage;
and don't think that of itself sufh-
GENTLY attra ctive."
IT might suggest" 1 ventured, that
you are scarcely in a position to judge.
Now IL you would allow me to play the
part Of devoted husband to you for at
least year, at the end of that time
you might really be able TO give an
opinion on the subject"
She shook her head and put nought
into the middle of a new diagram and
L responded belligerently with a cross
underneath.
"As regards the money" said, ''you
can't expect me to make a fortune
without ever having an opportunity.
"That depends" she said, upon
what you call opportunity"
well" 1 remarked, II think Miss
Arnold gave me a pretty good oppor-
tunity the night of the dance when 1
sat out with her in the conservatory.
Miss ArnoldT she asked quickly.
What Miss Arnold? Do you mean
Jessie Arnold? Oh, 1 always said she
was a most atrocious flirtv
II don't know her christian name"
said, vaguely. 81 called her 'dar-
ling and l don't suppose it's any Miss
Arnold that you know"
"Jessie Arnold" she said solemnly,
would be the last-mind, 1 say the
very last-girl to make a wife for a
poor man."
"Oh! no; the Miss Arnold 1 mean
told me she understood economic
housekeeping thoroughly"
"Jessie's mean," she said earnestly,
land she'll never give you anything
but a cold luncheon. Her way of econ
omizing will be to starve you"
whether one succumbs to starva-
ton or a broken heart" 1 observed
darkly, ut will be all the same a hun
dred years hence"
"And in the meantime you've always
got the house." she said, thoughtful
ly.
But, you know, 1 haven't much tC
keep it on" 1 said, and 1 crooked my
forefnger and thumb to represent
nought-nothing.
81 suppose" she murmured, zone
would sooner succumb to starvation
than broken heart"
could you" l asked with a suddeI
inspiration, "subsist on such Spartan
fare as bread and cheese and-er-
| crosses?"
II think l could" she said, softly
"if you provided it," - Black ant
White.