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 My bread-and-butter's choc'late ice-cream,' said Leah Kaatenstein, waxing genial.

My bread-and-butter's vanilla ice-cream,' said Jenny Kaatenstein.

"But little Willy Kaatenstein said never a word, for his bread-and-butter seemed very good to him as bread-and-butter.

"Their bread-and-butter someway put new life into them and made them more fully awake to the fact that their mother was away for the afternoon. After all, they were not afraid of any one but their mother, and she being gone, should they not enjoy life for once?

"When they had finished eating they had a brilliant idea.

I'm going to shake a nickel out of my bank,' said Harry Kaatenstein.

I'm going to shake a nickel out of my bank,' said Leah Kaatenstein, in surprising luxury of spirit.