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David's stentorian tones asking, "Are you all right, Jean?" brought back swift realization of the situation. "Can't you manage between the two of you to do something to that door? I'll help all I can from this side." "Yes; all right," returned Jean. Then to Tom: "Hav' you not then the axe, to chop him into splinter'? This very queer way to fin' you, M'sieu' Tom.
"Nay, then!" blustered he rising to his feet, "I came hither when I would fain have stayed in my own cabin aboard, and I came not to chop logic nor to be put to the question like a malefactor, but to bring help to my sick neighbors, who, to be sure, cried out for it lustily enough before they got it, but now pick and question at my good meat and drink as if 't were like to poison them.
I was just about to take cheese after chop when Bellingham came hastening in, in his hand an open telegram. 'The birds have flown, he cried. 'Flown! How? In reply he gave me the telegram. I glanced at it. It ran: 'Persons described not in the train. Guard says they got out at Vauxhall. Have wired Vauxhall to advise you. 'That's a level-headed chap, said Bellingham.
This dish is made more attractive by a garnish with sweet Spanish peppers, cut into strips. Hard-boil five eggs. Separate the whites from the yolks. Put the yolks through a sieve. Put the whites either through a vegetable press, or chop them very fine. Make a half pint of cream sauce, season it and add the whites. Have ready a sufficient amount of toast, carefully buttered.
"They called me Conk at Sandhurst, sir," he suggested. "Bones!" said Hamilton, definitely. "Bones it is, skipper," said Mr. Tibbetts; "an' now all this beastly formality is over we'll have a bottle to celebrate things." And a bottle they had. It was a splendid evening they spent, dining on chicken and palm-oil chop, rice pudding and sweet potatoes.
Cover it, and set it in the sun, or in some other warm place for three weeks. Then strain it through a flannel bag, and bottle it for use, This vinegar will he found very fine for salads, or for any nice purposes. Take a large handful of lavender blossoms, and the same quantity of sage, mint, rue, wormwood and rosemary. Chop and mix them well.
"If you mean Miss Prentice, I wouldn't speak of her in that fashion, Priscilla." "Mormon Joe's Kate, then, if you like that better," replied Mrs. Pantin, nettled. "Or 'Mormon Joe's Kate, either," curtly. "So sorry; I didn't know you knew her. Do you?" Mr. Pantin, who at his own table was given the privilege of taking bones in his fingers, pointed the chop at her.
I hope that my mistress will chop off your whiskers!" But Jarro couldn't shut Clawina up with this outburst. "So you think I'm lying," said she. "Ask Caesar, then! He was also in the house last night. Caesar never lies." "Caesar," said Jarro, "you understand human speech much better than Clawina. Say that she hasn't heard aright!
LEEK MILK. Wash a large handful of leeks, cut them small, and boil them in a gallon of milk till it become as thick as cream. Then strain it, and drink a small bason full twice a day. This is good for the jaundice. LEEK SOUP. Chop a quantity of leeks into some mutton broth or liquor, with a seasoning of salt and pepper.
Bake three sheets of sponge cake, as for jelly cake; cut nice ripe peaches in thin slices, or chop them; prepare cream by whipping, sweetening and adding flavor of vanilla, if desired; put layers of peaches between the sheets of cake; pour cream over each layer and over the top. To be eaten soon after it is prepared.
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