Recollects he had a glazed 'lectionbun, and sat eating it and looking down on to the Common.
Lalocks flowered late that year, and he got a great bunch off from the bushes in the Hancock front-yard.
Them 'lection-buns are no go,--said the young man John, so called .-- I know the trick.

Give a fellah a fo'penny bun in the mornin', an' he downs the whole of it.

In about an hour it swells up in his stomach as big as a football, and his feedin' 's spilt for that day.

That's the way to stop off a young one from eatin' up all the 'lection dinner.
Salem! Salem! not Boston,--shouted the little man.
But the Koh-i-noor laughed a great rasping laugh, and the boy Benjamin Franklin looked sharp at his mother, as if he remembered the bun-experiment as a part of his past personal history.
The Little Gentleman was holding a fork in his left hand.

He stabbed a boulder of home-made bread with it, mechanically, and looked at it as if it ought to shriek.