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But Skinny wore it, declaring he liked it better that it more nearly matched the shamrock tie than when it was "too darned white and everything!" To Parker and the boys on the beef hunt everything was business.
And, even beyond the reach of any laws, no animal should ever be killed in sport when its own death might entail the lingering death of its young. A sportsman who observes these rules instinctively, and who never kills what he cannot get and use, is not a cruel man. He certainly is a beast of prey. But so is the most delicate invalid woman when drinking a cup of beef tea.
Then there was the Christmas dinner of roast beef and plum pludding, to which all the children did ample justice; and in the evening they came over to our house, and we had a few amusements for them, and sang some Christmas hymns. New Year's night was the time fixed for the Christmas Tree and the prize-giving.
On the table was a sufficient provision of a kind of stewed beef and brown bread, in pewter dishes, which are kept perfectly bright, and displayed on shelves in great order and regularity when they are not in use. The women rose hastily, on our entrance, and retired in a hurried manner to either side of the fireplace.
Parties passing, who have leisure to stay a day, will find very fair accommodation at the inn overlooking the station, and often, about one o'clock, a fine hot joint of grass-fed beef of magnificent dimensions.
Their wealth was their cattle, and their mealie or maize grounds; their food, beef, mealies, and curdled milk; their drink, beer, made of maize; their great luxury, snuff, made of dried dacca and burnt aloes, and taken from an ivory spoon.
And if we are half an hour late, of course things get cold; or if they are kept in the oven, as was the case with the beef last night, they are apt to be overdone?" "Why, of course. Ha! Ha! Wonder I didn't think of that," laughed Thaddeus, though his mirth did seem a little forced. "But she's she's going to change, I suppose?" "She said she'd try," Bessie replied.
"That's right," said the captain. "It was very thoughtful, and just what I had intended doing myself, only I forgo it! I have got our old friend Snowball, the cook, busy here in the same way, boiling as much salt beef and pork as he can cram into his coppers, so that it may be ready-cooked when wanted and save time. The darkey has got the galley fire in full blast now."
The rest of the natives of every description were invited to partake with the ships' companies, who had a pound of good fat beef served up to each man, and what remained of their spirits was made into grog, and divided amongst them. On the 5th, our navigators received from Bolcheretsk a fresh present of tea, sugar, and tobacco.
Senator Beef Steer " She laughed. "I like your rage! Look! What's that mountain behind the cabin doing?" "Shine on pale moon, don't mind me," laughed Wayland; but suddenly he stopped storming. The slant sunlight struck the Holy Cross Mountain turning the snow gullies pure gold against the luminous peak.
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