I found myself facing a soda fountain.

We all three of us sat around a pine table, upon which faintly flickered a tallow candle in a soda-water bottle, that shed around a sickly glare (that is to say, the candle did).

Then he called his Russians together, and the talk sounded as though a soda fountain had burst.

" "Well, you can have a soda on me, can't you?"

"I forgot all about that," I said; "didn't Vic treat me to a soda only last week?

But once on my way home from school I stopped in Vander's Drug Store to get a soda, and wait for the rain to stop.

I didn't even stop in the village to have a soda.

Now if there is anybody in the world who prides himself on knowing a thing or two, it is the spruce young man who presides over a soda fountain.

"How about a soda?" "Too early for anything else," one said.

At one side was a great onyx-and-marble desk, looking like a soda-water fountain without the silver faucets, and it was the thin-cheeked, elegant young-old man behind this structure who gave instructions whereby Mrs. Marshall and her two daughters found their way to Aunt Victoria's immense and luxurious room.

"Sounds like one of those labels on a soda-water fountain that nobody ever samples.

In the presence of Nathan Slate and Billy he was pretending to work, but his brain was as dry as a soda-cracker.

He went through contortions, pitched coins against himself, and staggered around the room with a soda-water bottle at his lips, imitating a drunkard.

"Aw, now, Freddy," he coaxed, "wanna come out with me an'an' have a soda?"

Inside the door a soda fountain hissed provocatively.

It's not a soda-water fountain either, but a straight temperance affair, such as you'll find in the homes of all truly good people.

"No; just about the same distance as you 'ave," he ses, and he went off spluttering like a soda-water bottle.

Say, I foamed like a soda-water bottle when I got into the bull-pen and told the boys my luck.

* A SODA CAKE.

A horrible dinner; no wine, and no beer, Not even a soda your spirits to cheer; No water to wash in at Turinjust think!

Others liken it to a paddle, and matter-of-fact colonists to a tennis-racket or a soda-water bottle flattened.

William Hope returned to his little Grace with a loaf of bread he bought on the road with Bolton's shilling, and fresh milk in a soda-water bottle.