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 clothes on de fat one.” “Lost, strayed or stolen, liberal reward. Git wise, Ella, git wise.” And Ella, being no fool, took the cue and changed her tactics.

“Jos’phine,” she called in honeyed accents, “Come here, Jos’phine, till I tell youse ‘someting.”

The children hesitated but were won by the next overture.

“What was dat you was sayin’ about buns? Why, if it’s buns youse is lookin’ fer, we got "em by de dozen. (Abe! Skate round to Grostein’s and git some copper buns quick.) An’ milk too, fresh from de cow.”

So with smiles and seductive promises, she lured them to her, and they were only too glad to rest in the cool back room while she set a small table for them. It all seemed very grand to Josephine, and when many buns and much milk had been consumed and Bateese Rh