I bequeath all my extra helpings of dessert to Pee-wee Harris of the Ravens-up to three helpings.
I had threehelpings and home in Bridgeboro I would only have had two, so that shows you that it's worth while doing a good turn.
Some carvers, under such circumstances, begin cautiously, serving small helpings at first until they are sure they are safe, and then becoming gradually more lavish.
If the first helpings were extravagant, there has still not been quite time to feel the real pinch of want.
Ada waited upon them, and although the helpings of food seemed infinitesimal to Alex, everything tasted delicious, and she wondered if Barbara always had three courses as well as a dessert of fruit and coffee, even when she was by herself.
Just think--Nat has even made special arrangements here in the pension, so that the children all have second helpings to everything.
Picking up a bottle, the General poured out generous helpings in two of the glasses, and handed one to me.
I can see him as he sat at the head of the supper table, carving liberal helpings which Mary and Helen and Willie devoured with country appetites, watching our plates.
Three helpings to a fellow; and I'll have more, 'cause I wouldn't let you throw cucumbers at Louise.
If her sister has two helpings of rice pudding for supper, then she has two helpings of rice pudding.
We were born on the seventh day of the seventh month, and we always eat seven helpings of dessert.
It's a fellow that eats twohelpings of dessert," I told him.
At formal dinner parties, luncheons, and breakfasts, second helpings are never offered by the host or hostess, and should not be asked for by the guests.
And they ate at two helpings of everything, and Father Blair ate three.
Very well; and tell Jack he can have three helpings of everything!
Indeed, several fellows have it down to such a science already, that they get three helpings before the cook begins to say things.
I never did care for fish, but I'll be hanged if I didn't eat three helpings of the creamed salmon and spaghetti to-night.
I don't know what I was cured of, but I'm feeling much spryer just now after three helpings of beef stew and apple marmalade and I'm ready to turn in and sleep some more.
Three helpingsof navy beans for me with pineapple marmalade, and a piece of salt pork on the side, not to mention three cups of coffee and three slices of bread.
And Alice and Mary Jane, both had secondhelpings all around.
But I said I would have both helpingsat once; a recollection of nursery dinner, you know.
Second helpings of everything are called for and eaten, until at last the waistband protests at such pressure being put upon it.
At table they would challenge each other to take more helpings and slap their rounded stomachs to make more room for dessert.
Oh, he did not mind, he would soon catch the others up; and he asked for three helpings of soup, platefuls of vermicelli, in which he soaked enormous slices of bread.
He was as rich as the blackberry pudding of which Pee-wee Harris (official cut-up of the Ravens) always ate three helpings at mess.
Great applause) I think that most scouts, including our young friend in back, would wish three helpings of Uncle Jeb.
Little Johnnie got two helpings of turkey and two helpings of pudding and then he was allowed to sip a little champagne when the toasts to the Queen and the father and mother and the young and rising poetess of the family were offered.
A fairy who could put away quite a respectable cut from the joint, followed by two helpings of pie, does take a bit of believing in.
It was the eldest Arlington girl's quite audible remark that pa could have eaten two helpings of pudding while he had been talking, that caused Mr. Arlington to lose the thread of his discourse.
I will give you two helpings of trifle at supper if you tell me.
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