There was a rock by his ankle, the size of a grapefruit.

She attended first very competently to all of Paula's wants in the way of breakfast and saw her fairly launched on her chilled grapefruit.

At ten o'clock the next morning she sat behind her little breakfast tableit was daintily munitioned with a glass coffee machine, a grapefruit and a plate of toastwaiting, over The Times, for Rush to wake up.

Now all through the dinner she had hardly said anything, but she had listened for twenty minutes (from the grapefruit to the fish) while the Interesting Man had told her about his life in Honduras (it is pronounced Hondooras), and for another twenty while the Smooth Gentleman, who was a barrister, had discussed himself as a pleader.

He scratched the rear of one calf with the other toe, and muscles cavorted in both legs as he reached for a jar of grapefruit marmalade.

"Each one is a little grapefruit tree.

" "Grapefruit?

" "Watch me save grapefruit seeds!"

and Ethel Brown ran out of the room to leave an immediate request in the kitchen that no grapefruit seeds should be thrown away when the fruit was being prepared for the table.

"When Mr. Morton and I were in Florida last winter," said Mrs. Morton, "they told us that it was not a great number of years ago that grapefruit was planted only because it was a handsome shrub on the lawn.

"Mother has a receipt for grapefruit marmalade that is better than the English orange marmalade that is made of both sweet and sour oranges," said Dorothy.

"Sometimes the sour oranges are hard to find in the market, but grapefruit seems to have both flavors in itself.

"Not quite as bad as that, but you'll be surprised to find how much three or four grapefruit will make.

She taught me to make these grapefruit chips," and she handed about a bonbon dish laden with delicate strips of sugared peel.

"You can squeeze out the juice and pulp and add a quart of water to a cup of juice, sweeten it and make grapefruit-ade instead of lemonade for a variety.

The little thicket of grapefruit trees served as the centrepiece of Ethel Blue's dinner table, and every one admired all over again its glossy leaves and sturdy stems.

"We have grapefruit salad to-night.

It was a delicious salad, the cubes of the grapefruit being mixed with cubes of apple and of celery, garnished with cherries and served on crisp yellow-green lettuce leaves with French dressing.

"We mentioned plants and gardens on my birthday and that very evening Margaret brought me this grapefruit jungle and now you've brought me this.

The refreshments followed somewhat the parrot color scheme, with halves of grapefruit garnished with cherries, chicken à la King, pimento, walnut and cream cheese salad, orange ice, and little cakes with colored frosting.

The first course was grapefruit, then followed scalloped oysters garnished with lemon slices, chicken and mayonnaise salad, individual baked custards, and sunshine cake.

THE TIME OF HIS LIFE "Dot, do you remember Kirke Waldron?" Dorothy Broughton, daintily manipulating her breakfast grapefruit, her shapely young arm showing interesting curves through the muslin and lace of her morning gownmade by her own clever fingerslooked up at her brother Julius.

In the bottom of his peritoneum Mr. Magnus felt that he carried a cold stone the size of a grapefruit.

HUNGARIAN FRUIT SALAD Mix together equal parts of banana, orange, pineapple, grapefruit and one-half cup of chopped nuts.

They sent grapefruit and confections to my state-room, which I tossed out of the port-hole.