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The following morning his mother accompanied Sal. She came to show how they made bread in the bush, and had brought a dishful of bran-risings. Explaining what yeast was and how to treat it, she set a panful of dough. When the mass had risen, she kneaded it, and moulded it into loaves.
"It will hardly have time to get cold." "Well, but I did a dishful myself last night. She is only preparing a reserve in case the attack be too deadly." "And where is the Cohen?" "Oh, we have asked old Hyams across the Ruins. We expect him round every minute." At this point the indications of Ezekiel's facial barometer were fulfilled, and a tempest of weeping shook him. "Na! Go then!
I often go out with my gun, and shoot them for my dinner. Piff, paff! with two shots I have directly a whole dishful."
If anybody puts arsenic or gunpowder into his watermelons, he is universally denounced as a stingy old murderer by the community. A great many people regard growing fruit as lawful prey, who would not think of breaking into your cellar to take it. I found a man once in my raspberry-bushes, early in the season, when we were waiting for a dishful to ripen.
The confectioner placed him in his own seat, and sent hastily to the bazaar for a large dishful of kabob, spread a napkin before Yussuf, and slicing a pomegranate strewed it over with pounded sugar and placed it before him, along with some sweet cakes and some honey. "O chief of beeldars!" said the confectioner, "it is my prayer that you deign to break your fast in the house of your servant.
In a stall adjoining our bedroom the mule was housed, and jingled his bell discontentedly all through the night. A poor man, nearly blind with acute inflammation of the eyes, was shivering over the scanty embers of an open fire which was burning in a square hole scooped in the earthern floor near the doorway. He ate the humblest dishful of maize husks and meal strainings.
"'Huldy, says the minister one day, 'you ain't experienced out doors; and, when you want to know any thing, you must come to me. "'Yes, sir, says Huldy. "'Now, Huldy, says the parson, 'you must be sure to save the turkey-eggs, so that we can have a lot of turkeys for Thanksgiving. "'Yes, sir, says Huldy; and she opened the pantry-door, and showed him a nice dishful she'd been a savin' up.
A great dishful of rice and curry, in which almonds, citron, raisins, and currants were plentifully mixed, was brought in, and it was wonderful how soon we forgot our warlike fervor after our attention had been drawn to this royal dish.
The confectioner placed him in his own seat, and sent hastily to the bazaar for a large dishful of kabob, spread a napkin before Yussuf, and slicing a pomegranate, strewed it over with pounded sugar, and placed it before him, along with some sweet cakes and some honey. "O chief of beeldars!" said the confectioner, "it is my prayer that you deign to break your fast in the house of your servant.
"Oh, yes, particularly of fieldfares," answered Louise. "Nay, that's capital!" said the Landed-proprietor. "There are innumerable fieldfares on my estate of Oestanvik. I often go out myself with my gun and shoot them for my dinner; piff-paff! with two shots I have killed a whole dishful!"
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