Wallace, however, promptly took the seat; and what began to be funnier than strange, he did not get up.

Not unlikely this circumstance was owing to the fact that several of the rude chairs had soft layers of old blanket tacked on them.

Whatever were Frank's internal emotions, he presented a remarkably placid and commonplace exterior; but when Jim began to search for the missing pan of dough, the joker slowly sagged in his chair.
"Shore that beats hell!" said Jim.

"I had three pans of dough.

Could the pup have taken one ?" Wallace rose to his feet, and the bread pan clattered to the floor, with a clang and a clank, evidently protesting against the indignity it had suffered.