married cratur' like me. Did you notice--that is, does
Ernst von Gerhard drop in often at Baumbach's? "






CHAPTER VIII


KAFFEE AND KAFFEEKUCHEN


I have visited Baumbach's. I have heard Milwaukee
drinking its afternoon Kaffee.

O Baumbach's, with your deliciously crumbling butter
cookies and your kaffee kuchen, and your thick cream, and
your thicker waitresses and your cockroaches, and your
dinginess and your dowdy German ladies and your black,
black Kaffee,where in this country is there another like
you!

Blackie, true to his promise, had hailed me from the
doorway on the afternoon of the following day. In the
rush of the day's work I had quite forgotten about
Blackie and Baumbach's.

"Come, Kindchen!" he called. "Get your bonnet on.