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The custom that the cockpit brings to the shop more than repays the proprietor for the expense and trouble of keeping it. In Cuba, the spurs of the cock are artificially pointed by paring with a penknife, but the Mexican way of arming them is even more abominable.
The arm is approximated to the head and held in this position by an apparatus or system of bandages for about ten days, at which time it is supposed that it can be severed, and further trimming and paring of the nose is then practiced. A column is subsequently made from the upper lip.
Place in a jar and pour over them white wine vinegar, with a little mace and small red peppers; no dark spice. You will have a beautifully white, mild pickled onion if this is carried out. OIL PICKLES. From MRS. IDA. M. BALL, of Delaware, Lady Manager. Two dozen large cucumbers, sliced without paring; sprinkle with salt; place in a colander to drain for two or three hours.
I have come out here this afternoon, in the middle of my book, in the middle of a chapter against the syndicalists, but it ill beseems me, after spending half a day looking calmly at peacocks, at giraffes, at hippopotamuses, at all these tails, necks, legs and mouths, at this stretch or bird's eye view this vast landscape of God's toleration to criticise any man, woman or child of this world for blossoming out, for living up, or fleshing up, or paring down, to what he is really like inside.
The thought of Gumpelino's Hyacinthos, ALIAS Hirsch, flashed upon me. Behold! the mighty Baron Nathan come to life again; but instead of Hyacinthos paring his mightiness's HUHNERAUGEN, he himself, in paring his own nails, had contrived to cut his finger. 'Come to buy Spanish? he asked, with eyes intent upon the sticking-plaster. 'Oh no, said I, 'I've no money to gamble with.
This latter was the favorite consulting room of the girls, and to-day they were all busily paring early apples and quinces to put down in stone crocks, against the coming of winter days. "Mother," called Helen, "were you ever in Delphi, where Uncle Cassius lives?" Mrs. Robbins sat down on the arm of Jean's chair and smiled at the eager faces upturned to hers.
The boys eyed her, somewhat askance, and all of the children scurried like a flock of startled chickens as she came up the boardwalk to the kitchen door, but the old grandmother kept serenely on paring potatoes, calm-eyed and unembarrassed. "How do you do?" said Kit, smilingly. "I'm Dean Peabody's grandniece. I just came west yesterday, and Sandy brought me here this morning.
This is a ceremonial dish, and is always prepared at the lis-lis ceremony and at a-su-fal'-i-wis or sugar-making time. Camotes are always prepared immediately before being cooked, as they blacken very quickly after paring. Millet is stored in the harvest bunches, and must be threshed before it is eaten.
That enormous, almost transcendent trust in that which was absolutely unknown seemed to engulf her. When she reached home, her mother looked at her in astonishment. She was sewing on the interminable wrappers. Andrew was paring apples for pies. "What be you home for be you sick?" asked Fanny. Andrew gazed at her in alarm. "No, I am not sick," replied Ellen, shortly. "Mrs.
One was drawing out wax ends on his knee, another was softening pieces of leather in a bucket of water, another was polishing the instep of a shoe with a piece of curved bone, another was paring down a heel with a short broad-bladed knife, and another was hammering wooden pegs into a sole.
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