Capitolo 34
There was once a house-as Beanery where one could say the day of the
Week from what was on the Table.
The Hit Oar of this Food Bazaar had been in the Business since 20
years, and she had earned on his/her Harp three times. The Plum Joke
it never touched her/it, and she made to train her as not to feel any
Sarcastic cracks on the Oleo. You prided her on the atmosphere
of Culture that has permeated the Establishment, and on the Fact that
she didn't lodge Improper Characters. A very Improper good person
Characters came around and they put in order of greatness on the Structure and then it blew.
It was a sure-enough Boarding-house, as a lot of of our Better People
knows all around even if they won't say.
His/her Owner was doing what she could discourage the Trust of Steer,
but she brought a heavy line of Gruel. You had Gruel to burn and
she sometimes did him/it. And her often the remarked that Spinach had Iron in
it and it was great for the Blood. One of his/her pet Theories it was that Rice
contained more Nourishment that could be found in Spring Chicken, but
the Boarders allowed that she never saw a Spring Chicken.
In the Throw of Characters very of the Old Favorites was. There was
the lippy Boy with the Williamses and Pedestrian Shirts that knew the Names
of all the Ball-players and you/he/she could say when there was a good Variety
You show in the City.
There was then the other kind, with a Moustaches straw- and a
the Apple of prominent Adamo that was very accurate on his/her Pronunciation.
He belonged to a Purity Social Baton that had a Cry. His/her Idea of a
Hurray it was to get in a Living room with some Nuns under that you/they were the
Age limit and it sings the Lower part they Divide of "Pull for the Beach."
[The illustration: _The Lippy Boy._]
There was then the Old Boarder. He was the Earth-Mark. Having lived
in Boarding-houses and Hotels all of his/her Life, he had developed an Obscurity
that surrounded him/it as a morning Fog. He had the an Opportunity of turning Things
above with his/her Fork, as whether to say, "Well I don't know this." And