The blacksmith had a great establishment, and the roar of the anvils never died away; feed and grain and a dozen lunch-counter restaurants.

When I think of how big a dollar seems to me, the tuition looks like the national debt of Mexico; but when I try to figure out how much it costs the college per student, I feel as though I were paying lunch-counter prices for a dining-car dinner.

Over their breakfast in the little wayside restaurant, with its untidy tables and greasy lunch-counter, it was Gratton who did all of the talking.

Not since she and Gratton, motoring up from San Francisco, had stopped at the wayside lunch-counter?

In the railway stationwhose buvette served him such listless refreshment as one may find at railway lunch-counters and nowhere else the world overa train was waiting with an apathetic crew and a sprinkling of sleepy passengers, for the most part farm and village folk of the department.

He could see, through a half-opened door, the tempting array of food on the lunch-counter in another room; but he knew that he could get none, and he tried not to think of eating.

" One week later the young man called to tell me he had not been able to do more than keep himself sustained at lunch-counters since he called, but hoped soon to obtain a position on a daily newspaper.