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Mince a young spring onion; strew it over the cress, add a plain dressing, and serve. CUCUMBER SALAD. If properly prepared, cucumbers are not apt to interfere with digestion. They should be gathered early in the morning and kept in a cool place until wanted.
"'Get off! he ses, spluttering. 'Get off, afore I tear you limb from limb! 'Ow dare you follow me about and come spying round corners at me? Wot d'ye mean by it? "I stood there with my arms folded acrost my chest, as calm as a cucumber. The other party stood there watching us, and wot 'e could 'ave seen in her, I can't think.
There was once a man who was as rich as the sea, but as there can never be any perfect happiness in this world, he had a son so idle and good-for-nothing that he could not tell a bean from a cucumber.
Take cucumbers and cut lengthwise to serve the salad in; scrape out the inside and salt well, then squeeze and use this to mix with the filling. Make a mayonnaise, mix with it, and fill the cucumber shells; keep all cold, and serve on lettuce leaf. Cut cold veal in half-inch slices, season with two tablespoons of vinegar, pinch of salt and pepper.
Again, three years later, he writes: "I hope you are reasonably careful of yourself during this cold weather. Look out! A hot lecture- room, a cold ride, the best-chamber sheets like slices of cucumber, and one gives one's friends the trouble of writing an obituary, when he might just as well have lived and written theirs. We had a grand club last Saturday.
They were commanded by a Highlander in a bum-bee tartan kilt, top-hat and one sock, with a red nose a foot long, riding on a rocking horse and brandishing a dem great cucumber and a tea-tray made into a shield.
"Waitin' for a chance to use 'is 'right, d'ye see, Peter!" added Simon. ANCIENT. Wi' 'is eyes a-rollin' an' flamin', Peter, an' 'is mane all bristlin' SIMON. Cool as any cucumber, Peter ANCIENT. A-roarin' an' a-lashin' of 'is tail SIMON. And sparrin' for an openin', Peter, and when 'e sees one downin' 'is man every time
Steel, in the words: "....cucumber and gourd... tall curved vimanas or towers, exactly like two thirds of a cucumber stuck in the ground and surmounted by a flat gourd-like 'amalika. .... Exquisite in detail, perfect in the design and execution of their ornamentation, the form of these temples leaves much to be desired.
"Silly wench that thou art," replied the other, "what adorns the tree but its leaves and the cucumber but its bloom? Didst ever see aught uglier than a scald-head, with his beard plucked out? Knowest thou not that the beard is to men as the side-locks to women; and what is the difference between the chin and the cheek?
We have had pears, too, some of them very tolerable; and peaches, which look magnificently, as regards size and downy blush, but, have seldom much more taste than a cucumber.
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