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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. AN IRRESISTIBLE TEMPTATION. Harris is lucky, said Sam Winslow. His folks send him a box every now and then, and he gets it through old Carter, at the village. I have hard enough time smuggling it in, said Harris, and I share when I get it here. For which we may well call ourselves lucky dogs, smiled Harvey Dare. A fellow gets awfully weary of the regular rations they have here. That's right, agreed Frank. I often long for the flesh pots of Egypt, or almost anything in the way of a change of fare. Well, here's where you get it?if you'll agree not to spring any more ghost yarns on us, said Harris. Just look over this collection of palate ticklers, fellows. Fruit cake gasped Sam, delightedly. Oh, how my stomach yearns for it Cream pie ejaculated Wat Snell. Yum yum Somebody please hold me Tarts panted Harvey Dare. Oh, I won't do a thing to them Look at the cookies and assorted good stuff murmured Bart, ecstatically. I shall be ready to perish without a tremor after this I Permit me to do the honors, said Harris, grandly. Just nominate your poison, and I will deal it out. So each one called for what he desired, and Harris supplied them, using a pocket-knife with which to cut the cake and pie. Aren't you glad you came, Merriwell? asked Sam, with his mouth full of fruit cake. Sure, smiled Frank, as he helped himself. I shall not regret it, if it gives me indigestion. Frank believed Wat Snell was a sneak, but he did not fancy it would be at all necessary to accept the fellow as a friend just because they had met under such circumstances. He meant to use Snell well, and let it go at that. The boys thoroughly enjoyed their clandestine feast. It was a luxury a hundred times dea...
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