MR. CHUPES AND MISS JENNY 



she went at her food; attributing it to the 

 fact that she had, undoubtedly, often gone 

 hungry, and that, even in the midst of 

 abundance, she perhaps feared her good 

 things might be spirited away from her at 

 any moment. But the five years of plenty 

 only modified, never overcame, her greed, 

 and her table manners never improved. It 

 was a nouveau-riche streak, ever in evidence 

 in the dear little plebeian. 



From the time when Mr. Chupes learned 

 to feed himself, 'his principal diet was 

 grated carrot mixed with mocking-bird 

 food, and although at the outset Jenny's 

 taste ran exclusively to such things as 

 boiled potatoes, bread, wafers, etc., she 

 soon learned to like the carrot and mock- 

 ing-bird food better than anything else. 



But apart from this staple diet, the most 

 desirable article of food seemed to be what- 

 ever 7 was eating. No matter how stealth- 

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