Little Willy, aged seven, was asked by his teacher to define the word "confuse." "'Confuse' is what my daddy says when he looks at his watch," said Willy. The teacher never asked that question again. At least, not of Willy.
Little Gertrude, aged three, was saying her prayers. "Is God everywhere?" she asked.
"Yes, dear, everywhere," answered her mother.
"Yes, dear, _everywhere,_" repeated her mother, all unsuspecting.
"Then He must be like Uncle Ned," said the little tot.
"Why, Gertrude, what makes you say that?"
"Because I heard Daddy say that Uncle Ned was everywhere," was the astounding reply.
Slowly the girl in the green hat approached the swinging door of the hotel.
A man more versed in the ways of womankind than Ned Pillsbury might, perhaps, have perceived that she was also glancing surreptitiously upwards through the dark fringe of lashes which veiled her brown gypsy eyes, but Ned was not a trained observer in such matters. To him, as he sat in the large, roomy leather chair in the lobby, the only reaction was
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"Just how much faith can I put in my crank-shaft?"
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Zimco crank-shafts have that indefinable quality which gives them personality among crank-shafts. You know a Zimco when you see one and you feel that it is an old friend. It does everything but speak. And that its host of friends do for it.
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one of amazement that there could be such a beautiful person alive in this generation.
Ned was a young man of great possibilities, but few probabilities. Born in the confusion of an up-state city, and educated in the hub-bub of a large college, on whose football team he had distinguished himself in the position of left-halfback, he had never been so fortunate as to receive that quiet instruction in dark brown eyelashes and their potentialities which has been found to be so highly essential to the equipment