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The Corinthian looked for a moment into his cup, moving it slowly about on the marble slab of the little table at his side, between an oyster pasty and a dish of fresh asparagus; and then he said, glancing round to win the suffrages of the company: "At the great procession which took place under Ptolemy Philadelphus Agatharchides gave me the description of it, written by the eye-witness Kallixenus, to read only yesterday all kinds of scenes from the lives of the gods were represented before the people.
From it I threaded the thoroughfares up to the mainland, reaching at dusk the "Emma Nickson Plantation." The creeks were growing more shallow, and near the bulkhead, or middleground, where tides from two inlets met, there was so little water and so many oyster reefs, that, without a chart, the route grew more and more perplexing in character.
He said, 'Hennery, I don't like oysters like I used to, and it seems to me I couldn't eat another one to save my life, but if, as you say, we are in a country where a man's life is held so cheaply, by the great horn spoons, I will eat every oyster in the house, and the Lord have mercy on me. I told him that was about the size of it, and he would eat or die, and maybe he would die anyway, and just then a wicked-looking negro with a big oyster knife came to the table and looked ugly at dad and said, 'Have another dozen? and dad said, 'Yes, and then he began to eat as though his life depended on it, and I could hear the great wads of oysters strike with a dull thud on exposed places inside of dad, and before he got up from the table he had eaten them all, and he told the man we would be in again to lunch after awhile.
Once, in breaking a shell, his stone knife struck the bowl and broke it. "Too bad," he said. "Mother liked that bowl. She made it herself, of clay, and dried it by the fire." "Of clay!" Thorn said, looking at pieces wonderingly. "I never saw a bowl like that." Periwinkle threw the oyster shells and pieces of broken bowl up on the shell heap. "We throw all such things in a heap," he said.
"Yes, mother and Alice and I have each given you one, and there is this one from Angel Hen-Farrell." "An egg!" Diana cried. "Father said I could have an egg for my supper. I'll have it dropped on toast. I couldn't have any of the Christmas dinner, except the oyster soup." "Oh, you poor darling!" said Peggy.
There was oyster soup; there were sea bass and barracuda; there was a gigantic roast goose stuffed with chestnuts; there were egg-plant and sweet potatoes Miss Baker called them "yams." There was calf's head in oil, over which Mr.
"If thou hast not collected enough yet to buy a sound mantle, thy services cannot be very famous." "Modesty hinders me. But remember, lord, that to-day there are not such benefactors as were numerous formerly; and for whom it was as pleasant to cover service with gold as to swallow an oyster from Puteoli. No; my services are not small, but the gratitude of mankind is small.
In the course of successive raids which extended from 1692 to 1694 they descended upon York, Wells, and Oyster Bay, always with the stealth and swiftness which marked joint operations of the French and Indians.
There is one place, well advertised to American visitors, where they make a specialty of their beefsteak-and-kidney pudding. This is a gummy concoction containing steak, kidney, mushroom, oyster, lark and sometimes W and Y. Doctor Johnson is said to have been very fond of it; this, if true, accounts for the doctor's disposition.
Let this be a lesson to you never to lose YOUR temper! 'Hold your tongue, Ma! said the young Crab, a little snappishly. 'You're enough to try the patience of an oyster! 'I wish I had our Dinah here, I know I do! said Alice aloud, addressing nobody in particular. 'She'd soon fetch it back! 'And who is Dinah, if I might venture to ask the question? said the Lory.
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