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"Just send me up some beef and biscuit, and some coffee royal be sure it's royal, do you hear, because I'm partial to brandy, it's the only good thing there is on earth." I shall not easily forget the captain's look as he turned towards the stranger, and gave his huge shoulders a shrug, as much as to say, "Well, I can't help it now; he's here, and I can't throw him overboard."
"Will you come below and see my poor wife, sir?" said the master, in an anxious tone. The doctor at once descended with him. Meantime the provisions were handed up; some cans of hot cocoa and biscuit. The crew stood round like school children, waiting to be supplied with their food, with difficulty restraining their eagerness until the cups of cocoa were handed to them.
A few minutes later another visitor from the same direction crashed on top of one of the transport waggons within a stone's throw of our tent. That decided me; in a few seconds I had scrambled up the side of a kopje, with the leg of a fowl in one hand and a soldier's biscuit in the other.
"When I came to he had hoisted the sail, and we were leaving the shore. The crazy fellow was eating some ship biscuit, which lay in a basket. "When the madman had appeased his hunger he looked at us for some minutes without speaking. "We were dreadfully frightened, but he never once came aft to annoy us.
'Then, said Mr Codlin, 'fetch me a pint of warm ale, and don't let nobody bring into the room even so much as a biscuit till the time arrives.
She turned over to the last page, and read, "given Toby his biscuit and told him Master will soon be home. He will, won't he, dear boy? "Your loving old MUM." She frowned. Louis had slid down to the floor and was curled up against the wall, making himself as small as possible, muttering, and occasionally grasping out at something that eluded him.
Edwardes said about diet, and I told him afterwards that he was an arch-humbug; but it turned out that he had been bothered all his life at least he said so by indigestion, and that at Wellingham he had lived on some peculiar biscuit for nearly a fortnight, which recalled to my mind what Ward had said to me about him.
Ellis, they can eat dried beef and fresh biscuit and plain cake; and if you will give me the keys I will get out the preserves and the best silver, and see that the table is set properly." Nothing was a trouble to Gertrude that night. Everything that she touched went right. Jane caught her spirit and became astonishingly active; and when the really bountiful table was spread, and Mrs.
You have come for that, have you not?" The old woman continued to roll the dough and cut out the biscuit with a brisk motion, at the same time looking keenly at Judith. "Yes, I reckon that's what I come for mostly, and at the same time I come somewhat to be holped myself. As soon as I git these here biscuits in the oven I'll tell you what Billy air too shamefaced to own up to."
He had been sent for immediately, and he was explaining the causes of the accident, of which I understood nothing, however. Then he sat down and had a glass of liqueur and a biscuit. He went on talking, and what he then said will remain engraved on my mind until I die! I think that I can give the exact words which he used. "Ah!" said he, "the poor woman!
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