[The Window-Gazer by Isabel Ecclestone Mackay]@TWC D-Link bookThe Window-Gazer CHAPTER XIII 4/35
'Ham', however, suggested 'Piggy'.
This might have done had there not already existed a 'Piggy' with a prior right.
'Piggy' suggested 'Pork', but 'Pork' isn't a name. 'Pork' suggested 'Beans'.
And once more behold the survival of the fittest." Desire laughed. The professor listened to her laugh with a strained expression which relaxed when no words followed it. "I was afraid," he admitted penitently, "that you might want to know why 'Pork' is not as much a name as 'Beans'." "But--it isn't." "Quite so.
Only you are the first member of your delightful sex who has ever perceived it.
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