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A startled look was succeeded by one that was unmistakably horror Pinkey knocked over the box upon which he was sitting as he jumped from the table and tore the kitchen door open

Wallie watched hily: "Tell you what I think of it!" Pinkey declared, returning "I ain't got words--they ain't none in the dictionary My Gahat is it made of?"

"Just biscuit cru

"Where did you keep 'em?"

Wallie pointed to the box on the floor in the corner

Pinkey rimace

"Gi to take the taste of mouse out'n my mouth Wallie," solemnly, "ht you'd done that on purpose I'd slit your throat froht I was very particular and cut off everything that looked suspicious," said Wallie, "

"You shore did! And," Pinkey deht thehty fa to see if they were edible"

"Leave roaned as he sed a drink of water "And I passed up a turkey dinner to come and eat with you!"

"Shan't I cook you some bacon?" asked Wallie, contritely

"I doubt if I ever feel like eatin' agin, but if the cake's thawed out I'll try a chunk of it to take my mind off that stuffin'"

Wallie opened the can of pineapple he had been treasuring and Pinkey helped himself freely to the Christmas cake

"They must be about four meals in one of them slices, the way it feels inside ofof pineapple he held in his fingers

"It's fruit-cake, and rich; you're not supposed to eat so much of it," Wallie said, sharply

Pinkey raised his eyebrows and regarded Wallie attentively as he continued to nibble

"Looks like you're turrible touchy about her cookin', and swelled up over gittin' a Christmas present," he reht other cement bricks jest like this one and sent 'em around to fellers she's sorry for"

"Oh, did she!" Wallie ejaculated, crestfallen

"Yes, indeed," Pinkey went on, cothened countenance; "she does it every Christmas She's kind to the pore and sufferin', but it don't mean nothin' more than a dollar she'd drop in a hat soloom which immediately settled upon Wallie, Pinkey could think of the prairie-dogs with more equanimity