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"Because you wanted me captured, I suppose." "No, indeed, but, because " "Well, what?" "Because I wanted you to carry me off!" "Well, I declare! I never thought of that!" said the outlaw, dropping his bread and cheese, and staring at the young girl. "Well, you might have thought of it then! I was tired of hum-drum life, and I wanted to see adventures!" said Cap.
He knocked the can of peaches out of the Deacon's arms and ran his sword into it. A gush of whisky spurted out. The Sergeant took the package of cheese away and broke it open, revealing a small flask of liquor. "The idea of a man of your age being engaged in such business," said the Lieutenant indignantly.
Jan was at the wedding-breakfast, and the Misses West, in Master Cheese's estimation, ate like two sparrows: of course he had looked to be regaled with it at supper. Miss West cut him a large piece of cheese, and Miss Amilly handed him the glass of celery.
To make GOOFER WAFERS. To make common CURD CHEESE CAKES.
"I embraced my rejoicing parents when I got the bread and cheese. They re having their dinner. They won't expect me yet. Here," she added, hastily putting a ruby bracelet on Kathleen's arm, "see how splendid that is!"
You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of an underdone potato. There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are! Scrooge was not much in the habit of cracking jokes, nor did he feel in his heart by any means waggish then.
If the household is comparatively well managed, however, he strikes a match, and his 'dip' shows at the window. But he generally prefers to save a candle, and clatters down the narrow steep stairs in the semi-darkness, takes a piece of bread and cheese, and steps forth into the sharp air.
If the moon should happen to be a cheese, it may some time or another chance to fall about our ears in a shower of maggots. But what is this mighty power, that has done so much in so short a time; and from which you expect so many more miracles? 'It is the art of printing.
He would have left them to Vessons, but Vessons always had to notch sticks when he did them, and the manual labour ensuing on any accounts running into pounds would have seriously interfered with his other work. The cheese fair accounts usually took a long time. He could be heard saying in a stupendous voice, 'One and one and one until the chant ended in, 'Drat it! what do 'em maken?
Well, then, I'll reckon to hear fro' thee in a week, or, mayhap, less, for t' land is backward, and I'd like to know about t' pleughs. I'd a month's mind to write to Brunton, as married Molly Corney, but writin' is more i' thy way an' t' parson's nor mine; and if thou sells ribbons, Brunton sells cheese, and that's no better.
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