27/38 If I only knew what that dog was stuffed with I would take a chance and eat him. I admire their heroism and sympathize with their sufferings, but I deplore their bad judgment. I speak authoritatively on this subject, having just sampled one. Tried to take a nap, but failed. Hansen found a soiled deck of cards behind a pile of books on the mantelpiece, and we all cheered up, thinking of poker; but it was a Belgian deck of thirty-two cards, all the pips below the seven-spot being eliminated. |