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 thought I'd like to give this Koos Koos a trial just once—you hear so much about it and all—I thought I'd just find out for once what there was to it. John Edwards has been at me all the way down here to get me to try some. 'You needn't eat it,' he says, 'unless you like it; but just give it a try, '  he says. Well, I'll tell you about it, Mamma. I don't know whether you'd like it or not, because you haven't shown much appetite for these foreign dishes so far and been missin' home cooking so much and all; but the way I look at it"

"I don't believe I care particularly to hear how you look at it, thank you," Mrs. Tinker interrupted. "Are you coming up to our rooms now?"

"Now?" Tinker said inquiringly, and he seemed to think it a debatable question. He still maintained at least outwardly the affable jauntiness with which he had entered the room; and nowhere in his expression or posture was there an admission that he perceived a hint of trouble in the air. "Now? Well, no. No, I believe not for a while, Mamma. I was thinking I'd just sit down here and have a nice smoke with Mr. Ogle. I tell you what you do, Honey: suppose you and Libby just slip up to bed, and Mr. Ogle and I'll"