It 's going to be the city of the west after awhile , and the centre of a dozen railroads . Well , we mean to equip a small private restaurant for ourselves and we want you to take charge of it . You wo n't have to do much except oversee the business and arrange the bills of fare . We want plain , substantial old-time meals and cookery . When we have a hankering for doughnuts and apple pies and cranberry tarts , we want to know just where to get them and have them the right kind . We 're all horribly tired of hotel fare and fancy fol-de-rols with French names . A place where we could get a dinner such as you served yesterday would be a boon to us . We 'd have started the restaurant long ago if we could have got a suitable person to take charge of it . '' He named the salary the club would pay and the very sound of it made me feel rich . You may be sure I did n't take long to decide . That was a year ago , and today the Doughnut Club , as they call themselves , is a huge success , and the fame of it has gone abroad in the land , although they are pretty exclusive and keep all their good things close enough to themselves . Joseph P. took a Scotch peer there to dinner one day last week . Jimmy Nelson told me afterward that the man said it was the only satisfying meal he 'd had since he left the old country . As for me , I have my little house , my very own and no rented one , and all my dear boys , and I 'm a happy old busybody . You see , Providence did answer my prayers in spite of my lack of faith ; but of course He used means , and that Thanksgiving dinner of mine was the earthly instrument of it all . The Girl Who Drove the Cows `` I wonder who that pleasant-looking girl who drives cows down the beech lane every morning and evening is , '' said Pauline Palmer , at the tea table of the country farmhouse where she and her aunt were spending the summer . Mrs. Wallace had wanted to go to some fashionable watering place , but her husband had bluntly told her he could n't afford it . Stay in the city when all her set were out she would not , and the aforesaid farmhouse had been the compromise . `` I should n't suppose it could make any difference to you who she is , '' said Mrs. Wallace impatiently . `` I do wish , Pauline , that you were more careful in your choice of associates .
You hobnob XXXXX everyone , even that old man who comes around buying eggs .
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