"Fifteen is an hour late--as usual.

Jockey Bates always seems to be under the impression he's an undertaker's assistant, and is headed for the graveyard when he takes fifteen out.

He'll get the can, first he knows--and he'll put in a month or two wondering why.

I could make better time than he does myself." By then she was leaning with both elbows upon the counter beside the post-office, bored beyond words with life as it must be lived--to judge from her tone and her attitude.
"For Heaven's sake, Pete," she went on languidly, "can't you scare up a novel, or chocolates, or gum, or--ANYTHING to kill time?
I'd even enjoy chewing gum right now--it would give my jaws something to think of, anyway." Pete, grinning indulgently, came out of retirement behind the pigeonholes, and looked inquiringly around the store.
"I've got cards," he suggested.

"What's the matter with a game of solitary?
I've known men to put in hull winters alone, up in the mountains, jest eating and sleeping and playin' solitary." The young woman made a grimace of disgust.