18/19 'Eatin' bread an' milk, father ?' she asks, an' her pa looks up with tears in his eyes, an' swallers down another spoonful. 'No,' he says, as cross as a bear, 'I'm eatin' a pound o' salts Doc Weaver told me to git, but hang if I can eat another spoonful, an' I ain't above half done.' So I guess Kilo folks kind of gag when they think of books." "If I so much as mention books," said Eliph' pleadingly, "I wish you'd stop me. Mebby I do sort of get in the habit of it, thinking it and talking it so much. But I never meant to sell you one. |