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 you'll see they'll beat you an’ won’t give you any dinner at all.”

Bateese stood dismayed. His round eyes slowly filled with tears and the heart of Josephine melted within her.

“See, Bateese,” she said coaxingly, “Josephine got a copper here” (exhibiting the nobbly corner of a pale gray pocket handkerchief). “You know them buns with the sugar on top an’ currants on the bottom? —Um!” Josephine smacked her lips with imaginary gusto.

“Um!” smacked Bateese in response, his face alight with the joy of anticipation.

“Well, I guess there is a place round here we can get ’em. Come on.” So again did Eve tempt and Adam fall by the sin of greed.

And it was while in search of the delectable bun that they saw the glittering lady. The street they were in was dirty and narrow, but Rh