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and his whitefurred belly was already distended from it。
〃Take it away from him; Eddie;〃 Brutal said; half…laughing and half…horrified。 〃Christ almighty Jesus; he'll eat till he busts。 I can smell that peppermint from here。 How many have you let him have?〃
〃This his second;〃 Delacroix said; looking a little nervously at Mr。 Jingles's belly。 〃You really think he 。。。 you know 。。。 bus' his guts?〃
〃Might;〃 Brutal said。
That was enough authority for Delacroix。 He reached for the half…eaten pink mint。 I expected the mouse to nip him; but Mr。 Jingles gave over that mint … what remained of it; anyway … as meek as could be。 I looked at Brutal; and Brutal gave his head a little shake as if to say no; he didn't understand it; either。 Then Mr。 Jingles plopped down into his box and lay there on his side in an exhausted way that made all three of us laugh。 After that; we got used to seeing the mouse sitting beside Delacroix; holding a mint and munching away on it just as neatly as an old lady at an afternoon tea…party; both of them surrounded by what I later smelled in that hole in the beam … the half…bitter; half…sweet smell of peppermint candy。
There's one more thing to tell you about Mr。 Jingles before moving on to the arrival of William Wharton; which was when the cyclone really touched down on E Block。 A week or so after the incident of the peppermint candies … around the time when we'd pretty much decided Delacroix wasn't going to feed his pet to de