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 chair that had only one leg, but wouldn't upset. The things to eat were under little glass domes with little glass knobs on top. There was a big silver thing that hissed like an engine, and gave out tea, coffee, or soup. All that you had to do was to point at what you wanted, and a lady gave it to you as quickly as she possibly could. One lady was not so busy as the others. She sat behind a desk, and took all the money that people gave her. But she seemed to like the judge better than the other people, because after he had wiped his lips with a napkin and given her a green money, she smiled pleasantly and gave him back eight green moneys and two silver moneys of different sizes and three little brown moneys. And she nodded pleasantly at Beauling, and said to the judge: "Your grandson?"

"My son," said the judge, in a gruff voice.