Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 149
for you in return for your hospitality to a hun-gry guest? I beg your pardon—I quite forgot, and Irang the bell. When the servant came, I ordered supper fortwo. This strange order caused the servant togape in silent astonishment. I repeated the order,however, and she hurried away without askingany… … perhaps, said the little man, having lived forty centuries, i may be old enough to advise a young man of twenty-three. angry little fellow. I made no answer, being puz-zled over the proper way to ask my small friend toeat with a knife and fork larger than himself. But, as I hesitated, the…
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