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There was an odd kind of authority, too, in what he now proceeded to say, rather as if the garden were his own than a place to which he was admitted merely by Hepzibah's courtesy. "If agreeable to you," he observed, "it would give me pleasure to turn over these flowers, and those ancient and respectable fowls, to your care.
Barbary dried peas are exported principally to Spain, paying a dollar the quintal. Fez flour pays one dollar and a half per fanega; dates pay five dollars the quintal; fowls and eggs, the former two dollars per dozen, the latter two dollars per thousand; oranges and lemons pay a dollar the thousand. Gold is brought from Soudan over the Desert, and is sometimes exported.
Very likely they will try to make you believe that they live a most dainty and delicate life that the animals of the field, and the fowls of the air love them, and come at their call that clouds arrange themselves in heaven for their benefit, and are sufficiently paid for the effort by their admiration that flowers excite them to frenzy a very fine frenzy, indeed and that all sounds shape themselves to music in their souls.
"Can I never enjoy an hour's peace like other men?" exclaimed Ameni annoyed. "Your mistress can receive her, and she can wait with her till I come. It is true, girls is it not? that I belong to you just now, and to the fowls, and ducks, and pigeons?" His youngest daughter kissed him, the second patted him affectionately, and they all three went gaily forward.
Gray Goose said after another long look at the suffering gander; "but it agrees with what I said about the wisdom of being suspicious now and then. "It seems that once upon a time a colored man raised a nice flock of fowls; but his neighbors, who dearly loved stewed chickens or roasted turkey, came to dinner so often, that very soon one thin turkey and an old rooster, were all he had left.
Every day, for six persons, there were allowed a sheep, a goose, and two fowls; and to each person two measures of flour, a large dish of rice, two great basins full of things preserved with sugar, a pot of honey, some garlic, onions, salt, several sorts of herbs, a bottle of dirapum , and a basin of walnuts, filberts, chesnuts, and other dried fruits.
Rations to-day, one biscuit and a pound of flour. How to cook it? No fat and no baking-powder. Fortunately, Williams brought back from his expedition, besides fowls, etc., for the officers, some bread and, king of luxuries, a big pot of marmalade, which he bought from a pretty little Boer girl, the temporary mistress of a fine farm.
Mark went on as silently as he could, and the major kept back the two animals and waited a minute five minutes, ten minutes and then softly followed, to find the lad at the edge of a glade watching a flock of great lavender-hued and feather-crowned pigeons, as big as fowls, feeding in the most unconcerned manner.
After leaving Opoony we proceeded towards the North point of the Island, and in our way pick'd up half a Dozen Hogs, as many Fowls, and some Plantains and Yams; and I had an opportunity to view and draw a Sketch of the Harbour which lies on this Side of the Island, and which was the only thing that induced me to make this Excursion.
I have already observed, that it is given with the husks of rice to the hogs, and that they grow enormously fat without taking any other food: We were told also, that this syrup is used to fatten their dogs and their fowls, and that the inhabitants themselves have subsisted upon this alone for several months, when other crops have failed, and animal food has been scarce.
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