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In the way of eatables at the same meal we were gloriously favoured; for in addition to porridge, which was common to all, we had Irish stew, sometimes a bit of fish, and sometimes rissoles.
Feasts of this kind usually consist of but one species of food, and on the present occasion it was an enormous caldron full of maize which had to be devoured. About fifty sat down to eat a quantity of what may be termed thick porridge that would have been ample allowance for a hundred ordinary men.
I saw something, but it was no higher above the ground than myself. Terror seized me. I turned and rode back. "My stupid animal has bogged himself!" said lady Cairnedge quietly. Deep in the dark watery peat, as thick as porridge, her horse gave a fruitless plunge or two, and sank lower. "For God's sake," I cried, "get off! Your weight is sinking the poor animal! You will smother him!"
It all seems, to look back upon, as if it were like having porridge for breakfast, and nothing else every day, before I met Robert. Perhaps it is because he is going to be very grand in the future, but every one has discovered I am a beauty, and intelligent. It is much nicer to be thought that than just to be a red-haired adventuress.
If you had no teeth and no digestion, you were allowed a pint and a half of sowens porridge instead; and thus helped your portion of exhausted cavalry mount or your bit of tough mule-meat down. And so you went on like your neighbours, playing the game, while your eyes grew larger and your girth less, and your cheekbones more in evidence with every day that dawned.
It is very difficult always to remember that 'what' is not polite, especially in moments of surprise or agitation. 'Are Pterodactyls plentiful now? the Sand-fairy went on. The children were unable to reply. 'What do you have for breakfast? the Fairy said impatiently, 'and who gives it you? 'Eggs and bacon, and bread-and-milk, and porridge and things. Mother gives it us.
So at last, after repeating our advice that he give up the trip, we consented to his joining us. We entered the canyon by way of Hetch Hetchy Valley, each carrying his own provisions, and making his own tea, porridge, bed, etc. In the morning of the second day out from Hetch Hetchy we came to what is now known as "Muir Gorge," and Mr.
The visitors had tea, oatcake, and scons, with fresh butter and jam; and Lady Joan, for all the frost and snow, had yet a new-laid egg the only one; while the laird and Cosmo ate their porridge and milk the latter very scanty at this season of the year, and tasting not a little of turnip and Grizzie, seated on a stool at some distance from the table, took her porridge with treacle. Mrs.
Yet we preferred them. If it did nothing else, the Genevan Hospital, by Plymouth Dock, taught us to suit ourselves to the world as we found it. I do not remember that we were unhappy or nursed any sense of injury, except over the porridge for breakfast. The Rev. Mr.
It was in the evening that Hans arrived there, so he did nothing more that day than eat his supper a big pot of buck-wheat porridge, which he cleaned to the bottom and was then so far satisfied that he said he could sleep on that, so he went off to bed. He slept both well and long, and all the rest were up and at their work while he was still sleeping soundly.
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