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The stock of provisions at the hotel finally gave out, and I was compelled to purchase morsels of meat from the steward. Dreadful visions of famishing ensued, but ultimately the railway was opened to town, and a sutler started a shop in the village.
Then, taking her by the hand, he led her in and seated her beside himself at the table. Elsie's cheek glowed and her eyes sparkled with pleasure. There were several guests present, and she waited patiently while they and the older members of the family were being helped. At length it was her turn. "Elsie, will you have some meat?" asked her grandfather.
"A dog got it, or some wild animal!" guessed Greg. "No one animal could carry off four pieces of steak in his mouth at a time," Prescott answered, thinking fast. "And the tin plate I left here has gone with the meat. Animals don't lug off tin plates." "Dick and I will stay behind to watch and take account of stock," Tom called.
A table was set out in one corner, with meat and bread, wine and ale. But the unhappy lady would not attempt either to eat or sleep. She sat by the fire, faint, weary and gloomy. She listened to the sounds from below till the whole party had supped, and lain down for the night. Then she watched her guards, the woman knitting, and the man reading his Bible. At last, she could hold up no longer.
Salt and pepper two pounds of fat brisket of beef and let stand several hours. Wash and scrape two bunches of carrots and cut in small cubes. Place in kettle with meat, cover with boiling; water and cook several hours or until the meat and carrots are tender, and the water is half boiled away.
'I guess I thought I'd be late for dinner, the boy added, with a sort of chuckle, 'but I ain't; and he winked knowingly. 'Well, observed Arthur, laughing, 'you Yankees beat all the world for cool impudence. 'I rayther guess we do, an' fur most things else teu, was the lad's reply, with his eyes fixed on the trencher of bear's meat which Andy was serving up for him.
Young people were told that it was a sin to do what their fathers had done unhurt for centuries; those, moreover, who preached to them about the enormity of eating meat, were an unattractive academic folk, and though they over-awed all but the bolder youths, there were few who did not in their hearts dislike them.
She always treated him with profound disdain, even when he told her curious things that were like fairy-tales, some of which she did not believe if they were too far removed from the narrow area of her personal experience. Thus, when he assured her that certain plants fed on flies as men feed on meat, she told him with her sublime Spanish calm, "I do not believe it."
One day, as Gussie answered the summons to dinner, she surveyed the table scornfully. "Is this all that you have for dinner? This is the third day, Dexie, that you have given us no meat. You may like a vegetable diet, but I am sure no one else in the house does. We might as well dine at the poorhouse."
'I'll tell you what, Squeers, remarked his wife as the door closed, 'I think that young chap's turning silly. 'I hope not, said the schoolmaster; 'for he's a handy fellow out of doors, and worth his meat and drink, anyway. I should think he'd have wit enough for us though, if he was. But come; let's have supper, for I am hungry and tired, and want to get to bed.