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I suppose that if the four children all over eight years of age, belonging to a widow machinist well known to me, had died, their death would have been attributed to "natural causes." She had dined them upon one pennyworth of stewed tapioca without either sugar or milk. Sometimes the children had returned to school without even that insult to their craving stomachs.
The Boers are great smokers tobacco appears to have no hurtful effects whatever upon them, but seems rather to serve as a grateful sedative. The first thing offered on meeting a Boer is his tobacco pouch, and if one is a guest at his house, this is followed by one or more cups of coffee. This is drunk by men and women in large quantities, often without sugar, but very weak.
'Yes, said the man in black; 'you may bring me another glass of gin and water. 'Cold? said the landlord. 'Yes, said the man in black, 'with a lump of sugar in it. 'Gin and water cold, with a lump of sugar in it, said I, and struck the table with my fist. 'Take some? said the landlord, inquiringly. 'No, said I, 'only something came into my head. 'He's mad, said the man in black.
"No, for your letter says that he has only two rifles in his band, which are not enough to give him any chance of success." "Very true, sir. I hear that the bateaux are coming from the fort for the plank and flour." "Yes, to-morrow, if there is not so much wind as there is to-day; it blows very fresh. Where is John?" "I left him with the Strawberry, sir; they were busy with the sugar."
"Don't make no difference to me," answered the man; "tea isn't malt liquor; it's poor stuff any way, and it doesn't matter to me whether it's got sugar in it or not, but it's moistenin', and that's what I want. Now, madam, I'll just say to you, if ever I break into a room where you're sleepin', I'll see that you don't come to no harm, even if you sit up in bed and holler."
"Is your tay to your likin', ma'am?" he would enquire; and Emmeline, sipping at her tiny cup, would invariably make answer: "Another lump of sugar, if you please, Mr Button"; to which would come the stereotyped reply: "Take a dozen, and welcome; and another cup for the good of your make."
"Here is a jar of brown sugar, and in this basket what were once two loaves of white sugar," said Willy; "but, alas, they have sadly diminished in size, and will have a very salt taste." "We must not be over-particular," answered the doctor. "We will try and save what remains."
CHOCOLATE SAUCE, No. 1 Dissolve one-half pound chocolate in one cup of water and sugar to taste, boil somewhat thick and flavor with vanilla. CHOCOLATE SAUCE, No. 2 Scald two cups of milk, add two tablespoons of cornstarch diluted with one-half cup of cold milk, and cook ten minutes over boiling water.
"Not to-night," shouted one of the crew from the other ship, "the Royal Fortune ought to go. You have drunk enough, we are sober; and even my grandfather's spook wouldn't fight sober." "What talk is this?" "The talk that came to us to-night from the rum and sugar, when even the fish got punch from the Royal Fortune." "You rascals, do I manufacture sugar and brandy that you ask me for it?
He also wished for a comfortable home, and proposed to give as much as he got; only he had been anxious to wrap up the solid cake of this business in a casing of sugar of romance. Mrs. Thompson would not have the sugar but the cake might not be the worse on that account. "No, madame, not as yet; but they shall all be made open and at your disposal," said M. Lacordaire; and Mrs.
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