Do take care of her, Mr .-- what may I call you ?--while I look over this cupboard." "Call me Dr.Moonshine, if you want to." "I'm glad I was so thoughtful as to order sugar," continued the landlady.

"It's excellent to drop medicine on.

What's this in a bowl?
Ice-cream ?" "Why, don't you know what that is ?" said Lady Magnifico, sweeping along to the cupboard, and dipping in her dainty finger; "that's _condemned milk_.' "_Condensed_ milk, her ladyship means," said the doctor, "boiled down, you know, and thickened.

When you make a custard for dinner, you'll have to put in a tea-kettle full of water." This was the second hint the young man had thrown out concerning dinner; but Prudy was not to be hurried.
"What's this in a little caddy?
O, it's rice.

No; it's what Dotty used to call _coker whacker_." "What does she call it now, may I ask ?" said the doctor, with an irritating smile.
"_Patti-coker_--what you s'pose ?" was the rash reply.