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"Perfusser, is dem dar penguins good ter eat?" asked Rastus, as he and his learned companion strode through the snow to the rookery. "They are highly esteemed as food," was the reply. "Former expeditions to the South Pole have eaten them and declare that their flesh is as good as chicken." "As good as chicking!" exclaimed Rastus, delightedly. "My, my, yo' make mah mouf watah.
"Mother'd done much better, at home in her own kitchen, or anywhere you could've put her, than me with my clumsy ways," he continued, "but she never cooked anything that'll taste better to them boys." A negro cook appeared, with a tin cup in his hand. "Afo' de Lawd, Boss, is hit you dat's cookin' dat chicking? I done smelled hit more'n a miled away, and hab been huntin' foh hit all ober camp.
He had gold and silver, diamonds and rubies, riches of every kind. He had palaces, and he had 'Hospitals, interposed Maggy, still nursing her knees. 'Let him have hospitals, because they're so comfortable. Hospitals with lots of Chicking. 'Yes, he had plenty of them, and he had plenty of everything. 'Plenty of baked potatoes, for instance? said Maggy. 'Plenty of everything.
"After what I went through with standing over that roaring furnace of a kitchen-range, it does seem hard to see my sole just turned over and played with, like, and my chicking not so much as touched," said the dame. "Oh, Miss Rosamond, Miss Rosamond, you've a deal to answer for!" Captain Duncombe walked along the dark road between the cottage and Ratcliff Highway at a rapid pace.
'She had never been at peace before, sir, said Little Dorrit, turning towards Arthur for an instant and speaking low, 'and she always runs off upon that. 'Such beds there is there! cried Maggy. 'Such lemonades! Such oranges! Such d'licious broth and wine! Such Chicking! Oh, AIN'T it a delightful place to go and stop at!
Oct. 15. still rany, my throte is beter. we are going to have chicking for supper when the minister comes. tonite father brought some new goblets from boston. mother and aunt Sarah wirked all day making pies and cake. then mother let me lite a paper and hold the chickings over it to burn of the little fethers and hairs i like it becaus it smels like thanksgiving only i burnt my hand and it smelt jest like the chicking but i dident like that you bet.
She needed a wrapper, she said, and some cologne, and three new night-gowns, and "a lil chicking." 'Rastus wrote down each item painstakingly and somewhat ostentatiously in a hand suited to unruled paper. Then he bowed to the nurse, touched Hannah's hand with his sinewy little paw, and trotted out with an air of vast importance.
'Maggy and I have been to-night, she answered, subduing herself with the quiet effort that had long been natural to her, 'to the theatre where my sister is engaged. 'And oh ain't it a Ev'nly place, suddenly interrupted Maggy, who seemed to have the power of going to sleep and waking up whenever she chose. 'Almost as good as a hospital. Only there ain't no Chicking in it.
And then the little woman as was always a spinning at her wheel, she can go to the cupboard with the Princess, and say, what do you keep the Chicking there for? and then they can take it out and give it to him, and then all be happy! The interruption was seasonable, for the bell had nearly rung itself out.
"Oh, please, good Mistah Pencilguins, I didn't mean no harm," roared Rastus, who seemed to think the human-looking birds could understand him. "Go afta' de perfusser, it was him dat tole me youalls tasted lak chicking." "Stop that, you greedy black rascal," retorted the professor, laying about him with the egg-basket.
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