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This meekness on the part of a powerful man moved the girl, and a little later she went to the doorway and said to the crowd generally, "It's a wonder some fellow wouldn't open a cantaloupe or something." Haney put his finger to his mouth and whistled to the grocer opposite. He came on the run, alert for trade. "Roll up a couple of big melons," called Haney, largely.
After we have partaken of goat stew and bread a course of dumplings, melons, and peaches is served, and this finishes the feast. What seem to be dumplings are composed of a kind of hash of bread and meat, tied up in little balls with cornhusks and served boiling hot. They are eaten with much gusto by the party and highly praised.
In July, strawberries, gooseberries, pineapples, plums, cherries, apricots, raspberries, melons, currants, damsons. In August and September, peaches, plums, filberts, figs, mulberries, cherries, apples, pears, nectarines, grapes, pines, melons, strawberries, medlars, quinces, morella cherries, damsons, and various plums. OCTOBER. Meat as before, and doe-venison. Poultry.
He was leaning against the fence where I left him, eating melons, and the rebel came along, and the corporal quit chewing melon long enough to obey my orders and arrest the fellow. By all rules of military law I was entitled to the credit, and I would take it, though it made me ashamed to do so. How-ever, generals did the same thing.
On the glittering table lie a chicken, a hare, three partridges, besides other things which are called fruits peaches, melons, grapes and which are all good for nothing. Ah, the dust-bin! Inexhaustible treasury, receptacle of windfalls, the jewel of the house! You shall have your share of it, an exquisite and surreptitious share; but it does not do to seem to know where it is.
Two fine old lions are an addition from the Prince, but no foreign family would stand the inconveniences and discomforts of the ancient Prince, in spite of all his wives. PEKING, July 11. They have the best melons here you ever saw.
"We shall have more strength to haul you up afterwards." While he was speaking, he let down the tether-ropes. I fastened the water-melons to them. "You will excuse us, Andrew," said Stanley, "if we satisfy our thirst before getting you up. You know from experience what it is." Not waiting for my reply, their heads were in the melons, I suspected, before many seconds had passed.
Directly with milk may be taken any sweetish, alkaline fruits such as melons, sweet pears, etc., or the dried fruits, such as prunes, dates, figs, and raisins, also vegetable salads. With the latter, if taken together with milk, little or no lemon juice should be used. All acid and subacid fruits should be taken between the milk meals.
Whereas hard and long-kept salt meat, insufficiently soaked and cooked, and hastily broiled meat or fowls, just killed, and swallowed by hungry men unskilled in preparing food, help on diseases of the alimentary system as effectually as that intemperance in melons and cucumbers and unripe grapes and apples which has destroyed more soldiers than all the weapons of all enemies.
As a man of the world, however, listening to the views of one wiser and more experienced, he was made to see that helping one's self to the melons of another is really not the sort of thing a decent chap can do. Lily Bell, too, held the elder man's opinion. "She says she doesn't like it, either," the boy confided to his father with an admiring sigh. "She never would go with me, you know.
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