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He clutched the money tightly in his palm; it felt warm and comfortable, and sent a delicious tingling through his arm. How many glorious hot meals did that bill represent? He clutched it tighter and hesitated. He thought he smelled a broiled steak, with fat little mushrooms and melted butter in the steaming dish. He stopped and looked back towards the door of the booth.
Some portions were formed like large mushrooms; others appeared like the brain of a man, having stalks or necks attached to them; but the most common kind was a species of branching coral, and some portions were of a lovely pale pink colour, others pure white.
If you'd seen her the other night when she came home! A tangle of vraic was an old lady's best cap in comparison " "And how many did I get, and how many did you get?" retorted Miss Penny. "I got six and you got seven " "Seventeen, and you stole four of your six from Meg." "Oh well, I found the mushrooms, coming home, and they were worth a pailful of ormers." "You didn't beat them long enough.
Too late perhaps for medicine to help, and Amanita, the Deathcup, the child of Diablo, has claimed another victim. How shall we know the deadly Amanita among its kindly cousins, the good mushrooms?
"I want a message taken to Mrs. Broom's about those pickled mushrooms that she is doing for me." "Bob's out," responded Master Cheese. "Have a walnut, Miss Deb?" "I don't mind. Are they ripe?" answered Miss Deb. Master Cheese, the greediest chap alive, picked out the smallest he could find, politely cracked it with his teeth, and handed it to her.
I had dined. I had eaten my dinner. My dinner! So inextricably are the prose and romance of life blended. My dinner! I had eaten my dinner on this night. This wonderful night. This night of September the eleventh. Last night! "I had dined at the club. A chop. A boiled potato. Mushrooms on toast. A touch of Stilton. Half-a-bottle of Beaune. I lay back in my chair. I debated within myself. A Hall?
Its wing, of which I count the feathers one by one, tells me of flights on high, among the beautiful clouds; it carries me to the beeches raising their smooth trunks above a mossy carpet studded with white mushrooms that look like eggs dropped by some vagrant hen; it takes me to the snow-clad peaks where the birds leave the starry print of their red feet.
Then her father came in, and at once she asked after some sick person. "How goes it with him now," she said. "Well enough, says the leech; but he had well-nigh died in the night." "What is it that ails him? Can the leech tell that yet?" "He has taken somewhat that has poisoned him," the ealdorman answered. "The leech asked if he had eaten of mushrooms, or rather toadstools, by mistake."
How it did hurt when Hazel, as carefully as could be, helped him pick them out. But he bravely choked back the tears and blew his nose very hard. He did not want his new friends to think him a baby, of course. Even their breakfast was different. They had country beetles; nice, white mushrooms, and crisp, fresh apple seeds. And after they had eaten and eaten, Mrs.
Take a large turkey and truss it; take down the breast-bone, and stuff it in the breast with some stuffing, as you did the roast turkey, lard it with bacon, then rub the skin of the turkey with the yolk of an egg, and strow over it a little nutmeg, pepper, salt, and a few bread-crumbs, then put it into a copper-dish and fend it to the oven; when you dish it up make for the turkey brown gravy-sauce; shred into your sauce a few oysters and mushrooms; lay round artichoke-bottoms fry'd, stew'd pallets, forc'd-meat-balls, and a little crisp bacon.
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