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"Good-night, Ham," said Mr. Vane, once more. Mr. Tooting looked at him, slowly buttoned up his overcoat, and departed. The eventful day of Mr. Humphrey Crewe's speech on national affairs dawned without a cloud in the sky.
If you think it isn't a trick to rustle grub for three hungry men, just you try it. An' while I've been on the road for nearly six years, I've never had a dog set on me yet." "How do you mean?" asked the boy. "There's always grub on a farm if you know the right way to go about getting it," was the reply "and there's very few places I ever go away from without some bread or a hunk of ham or a pie.
Do not add milk, but let it remain somewhat firm. Make a thick bechamel sauce, sufficient to take up a quarter of a pound of grated Gruyere, and, if you wish, stir in the yolk of a raw egg. Lay in a circular dish half a pound of minced ham, pour round it the thick white sauce, and round that again the hot spinach. This makes a pretty dish, and it is not costly.
Dickson quickly lifted his wife into his arms and carried her into the tent. "Who did it?" and Mr. Conroyal's eyes searched anxiously the angry and mystified faces of the men, the moment Mr. Dickson vanished with his burden in the tent. "Th' Lord alone knows for sart'in," answered Ham. "But, I reckon, 'twas one of them durned skunks.
When I confided this to Peggotty, she told me that her brother dealt in lobsters, crabs, and crawfish, which accounted for the sea smells in the delightful house. The inmates of the boat were its master, Mr. Peggotty and his orphan nephew and niece, Ham and little Em'ly, which latter was a beautiful little girl, who wore a necklace of blue beads. There was also Mrs.
Each had his coat off; each wore a spotless linen apron; each wielded carving knives and forks; each was busy in carving plates of ham or tongue or beef; each contrived, while thus engaged, to keep his sharp, beady eyes on the doings in the room in front of the counter.
"Hello!" said Edith. "When did you blow in, and where from?" "I came to see Mr. Cameron last night, and he made me stay." "A friend of Willy's! Well, I guess you needn't pay for your breakfast by cooking it. Mother's probably run out for something she never has anything in the house and is talking somewhere. I'll take that fork." But Ellen proceeded to turn the ham. "I'll do it," she said.
Bring lunch in the same as if we were alone, and leave the rest to me. And when he had asked the blessing she says, smiling, `It's nothing but ham and eggs I've got to offer ye, Bishop, but there's enough welcome for ten courses, and the smile of him would have done you good to behold.
His friends were notified, and removed his remains to the cemetery near Bloomington, Ill. He was a gallant soldier, and had been so kind to Gen. Anderson that we all loved him. His death caused nearly as much sadness in my family as the loss of one of our own sons. "My son Jackson, James Whitcomb and old Ham staid close by Gen. Anderson, doing all they could to alleviate his sufferings.
We took our lunch on some flat rocks, near a place known on the road as "six-mile shanty;" not without difficulty, as the dogs, like ourselves, were hungry, and, while we were in chase of a refractory umbrella carried away by the wind, one dog demolished the butter and another ran off with our roast beef; and when we reflected that it was the last fresh meat we were likely to taste for months, we saw it depart with regret, even though the ham had been left us.
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