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For years the freight department of this pioneer railway will have to run opposition against ox-teams, and creaking, groaning wagons; and since railway stockholders and directors are not usually content with an exclusive diet of black bread, with a wilted cucumber for a change on Sundays, as is the Bulgarian teamster, and since locomotives cannot be turned out to graze free of charge on the hill-sides, the competition will not be so entirely one-sided as might be imagined.
"I am just arrived at this ancient town, at the 'Elephant and Cucumber Hotel. A party travelling under the name of MR. AND MRS. JONES, the gentleman wearing moustaches, and having with them a blue band-box, arrived by the train two hours before me, and have posted onwards to SCOTLAND. I have ordered four horses, and write this on the hind boot, as they are putting to.
I assure you he keeps nothing stowed away inside the cucumber frames! Naturally Mrs. Wilson had often looked for the hiding-place, but it was all on my behalf, and nobody rejoiced more heartily than she did when it was found." "We were on a completely wrong track," said Lindsay. "The only right clue was the enigma. I'm glad we puzzled that out, though we didn't win any prizes in the competition."
The aide de camp was, as I have said, jet black as the ace of spades, but he was, notwithstanding, so far as figure went, a very handsome man tall and well made, especially about the shoulders, which were beautifully formed, and, in the estimation of a statuary, would probably have balanced the cucumber curve of the shin; his face, however, was regular negro flat nose, heavy lips, fine eyes, and beautiful teeth, and he wore two immense gold earrings.
"Master Hal!" exclaimed Purday, "don't throw them little apples about." "They are red-hot shot, Purday!" "I'll red-hot shot you if you break my cucumber frames, young gentleman! Come, get out with you." Probably anxiety made Purday cross as well as everyone else, or else he distrusted Henry's discretion without Sam, for he hunted the little boys away wherever they went.
At length, Short, who had his rifle loaded in his hand, and was ever as cool as a snow-ball, which, I conceive, is cooler than a cucumber, managed to get ahead of the bearish marauder, and looking him full in the face, levelled his weapon. "Shall I fire, Dick?" he asked. "I know that I can hit him."
Place the shredded chicken on a bed of lettuce, and pour the dressing over it. Around the edge arrange rings of hard boiled eggs, sliced cucumber and beet root. From MRS. CHARLES J. MCCLUNG, of Tennessee, Alternate Lady Manager. When cold pour over your chicken, to which has been added as much chopped celery, and salt and pepper to taste.
It was a cheery repast. As though to make amends for his failure to respond when I knocked at his door, Max overwhelmed me with attention We were eating cold sorrel soup, prepared in the old Ghetto way, with cream, bits of boiled egg, cucumber, and scallions "How do you like it?" he asked "Delicious! And the genuine article, too." "'The genuine article'!" he mocked me.
For the name had been painted black by Aunt Lolly and as the rays of the sun could not go through the black paint the cucumber was white in those places and green all over elsewhere. The children's cucumbers also grew to funny shapes in their bottles. Mother Blake, with Mab and Hal to help, pulled up her carrots, of which she had a good crop.
He's dead now, but he made his living by preaching, and he wrote books. The only one of his works that I ever read was his Rules, and they are elegant. One of Jonathan's rules I learned by heart: 'When you feel pain, think of the pains of martyrdom and of hell. You might try that. But whatever you try, don't forget the bitters fruit of the cucumber tree in raw whiskey."
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