He ate so greedily you had to know he was glad to get it, but he wouldn't say so, not if he never got any more.

When you knew him, you understood he wouldn't forget it, and he'd be certain to do something nice for you before the day was over to pay back.

We sat there talking about everything we saw, and at last Leon said with a grin: "Shelley isn't getting much grape sap is she ?" "I didn't know she wanted grape sap." "She read about it in a paper.

It said to cut the vine of a wild grape, catch the drippings and moisten your hair.

This would make it glossy and grow faster." "What on earth does Shelley want with more hair than she has ?" "Oh, she has heard it bragged on so much she thinks people would say more if she could improve it." I looked and there was the vine, dry as could be, and a milk crock beneath it.
"Didn't the silly know she had to cut the vine in the spring when the sap was running ?" "Bear witness, O vine! that she did not," said Leon, "and speak, ye voiceless pottery, and testify that she expected to find you overflowing." "Too bad that she's going to be disappointed." "She isn't! She's going to find ample liquid to bathe her streaming tresses.