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In payment of these articles, the maritime states supply the interior countries with salt, a scarce and valuable commodity, as I frequently and painfully experienced in the course of my journey.
By the time that these purchases were made, and the goods brought home, it was not far from the supper hour; and Bertha prepared that meal by boiling a dish of salt cabbage from one of the barrels. This, with black bread and ale, made their supper.
In Cheshire and Lancashire there are red clays containing gypsum and salt of the age of the Trias which are between 1000 and 1500 feet thick. In some places lenticular masses of pure rock-salt nearly 100 feet thick are interpolated between the argillaceous beds.
Away along the curving shore, with the salt breath of ocean fresh upon them, went these young hearts, rejoicing in their existence, while the sea danced in sparkling wavelets at their feet. The attaché had just finished a letter to his brother; it was one of these wearisome business letters, enclosing some papers he had had to sign.
The provincial boy was quite equal to the occasion, though his return "chaff" smacked much of salt water. Arrived at the poverty-stricken street in which the Misses Seaward dwelt, Billy mounted the narrow staircase and knocked at the door. It was opened by Liffie Lee, who had remained on that day to accomplish some extra work. "Is your missis at home, my dear?"
The nearest water to the scene of the rush was a salt lake seven miles distant, and this at night presented a strange appearance.
I've lived by the sea sixty year, you know, and I've watched all kinds of doings. But what I'm surest of is that it's deeper'n we be." He chuckled softly. "Now, I wouldn't pertend to know all about her," he waved his hand, "but she's big and she's fresh salt, too and she makes your heart big just to look at her the way it ought to, I reckon.
The position was much the same with regard to salt. We have here for the first time the association of officials with wholesalers or even with a monopoly trade. This was of the utmost importance in all later times. Monopoly progressed most rapidly in Szechwan, where there had always been a numerous commercial community.
It makes an exceedingly good, easily digested luncheon or supper dish for children. 1 Spanish or 2 Bermuda onions 2 level tablespoonfuls of butter 2 level tablespoonfuls of flour 1/2 pint of milk 6 eggs 1 teaspoonful of salt 1 saltspoonful of pepper 1/2 saltspoonful of grated nutmeg Separate the whites and yolks of the eggs.
We remained there undisturbed during the Winter; and on the first day of May, 1770, my brother returned home to the settlement by himself, for a new recruit of horses and ammunition, leaving me by myself, without bread, salt or sugar, without company of my fellow creatures, or even a horse or dog. I confess I never before was under greater necessity of exercising philosophy and fortitude.
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