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I've got yer the proofs that that sneakin' hound of a Yankee school-master that Cress McKinstry's hell bent on, and that the old man and old woman are just chuckin' into her arms, is a lyin', black-hearted, hypocritical seducer" "Stop!" said Uncle Ben in a voice that made the crazy casement rattle.
The analogy between cress and grass flies in one's eyes; and, perhaps, the more probable derivation of the latter is from the root meaning to grow, rather than from that meaning to eat, unless, indeed, the two be originally identical. The A. S. forms coers and goers are almost identical. The Fr. cresson, from It. crescione, which Mr.
Madeleine has on the sill of her window two wooden boxes, in which, for want of air and sun, she has never been able to make anything grow but mustard and cress; but she persuades herself that, thanks to this information, all other plants may henceforth thrive in them.
He took a strong infusion of common cress, placed it in a flask, boiled it, and, while boiling, hermetically sealed it. He then heated it up in a digester to 270° F. It was kept for nine weeks and then opened, and, in his own language, on microscopical examination of the earliest drop "there appeared more than a dozen very active monads." He has fortunately measured and roughly drawn these.
"Will strawberry jam an' angel cake an' a bunch or so o' water cress be enough, Mr. Geoffrey?" Ravenslee sat staring down at the letter, rubbing his square, fresh-shaven chin as one very much at a loss. "'Might have said a little more just a little more," he muttered, his gaze focussed upon a certain line. "Will water cress an' angel cake an' a pot o' strawberry jam soot, Mr. Geoffrey?"
There are two varieties of cress, the curled and common. This is an ingredient with mustard in early salads. CRESS, AMERICAN. Erysimum Barbarea. This is cultivated for salads, and is much esteemed. It is increased by sowing the seeds in the spring. This is only good in the winter and spring seasons. CUCUMBERS. Cucumis sativus. Many sorts of cucumbers are cultivated by gardeners.
Caper junior's baby equally bald, but with a crop as sure of coming as mustard and cress beneath his flannel some in arms, some on legs, some upon brave crutches, all were abroad in the soft air from the west, which had stolen up under the stiff steel skirt of the east wind, exactly as wise Captain Zeb predicted. "My dear," said Mrs. Twemlow to the solid Mrs.
The artificial culture of water-cress is comparatively modern, and a remarkably pretty side-industry of the country. Formerly, the cress gatherer was usually a gipsy, or "vagrom man," who wandered up to the springs and by the head waters of brooks at dawn, and took his cresses as the mushroom-gatherer takes mushrooms by dint of early rising and trespass.
"Now I wonder what the dickens she can mean?" mused Ravenslee. "She means jest strawberry jam an' angel cake an' water cress, fer tea fer your visitors," said Mrs. Trapes, with a patient sigh. "Visitors!" repeated Ravenslee, glancing up. "Why, yes, they'll be here about four o'clock." "An' will water cress an' angel cake an' " "Quite enough! Certainly! Admirable!" exclaimed Ravenslee.
With Cress too ill to travel, the next morning I left Crawford to care for him, bade farewell to good old Don Abran, and started for Lampasos with Thornton and Curly. We nooned at Santa Cruz, a big sheep ranch midway between Musquiz and Progreso, leaving there about two o'clock.
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