'I wonder why I didn't think of it afore! Why don't you come right in and have dinner with me?
It's ALL ready and there's plenty for two.

DO come, Mr.Parker, to please ME!' "'Course Kenelm said he couldn't, and, likewise, of course, he did.
'Twas a smashin' dinner--chicken and mashed potatoes and mince pie, and the land knows what.

He ate till he was full clear to the hatches, and it seemed to him that nothin' ever tasted quite so good.

The widow smiled and purred and colored up and said it seemed SO good to have a man at the table; seemed like the old days when Dan'l--meanin' the late lamented--was on deck, and so forth.
"Then, when the eatin' was over, she says, 'I was expectin' my cousin Benjamin down for a week or so, but he can't come.

He's a great smoker, and I bought these cigars for him.