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"Like what?" "Like having a room to sleep in and a room to live in." "Here's the bread and butter," said Nora abruptly. "Will you have some syrup?" "S-u-r-e." He got up out of the rocking chair and pulling one of the stools up to the table, sat down. "The water ought to be boiling by now; what about milk?"
There was not a porthole, on the grimy glass of which you might not have written with your finger 'Dirty pig'; and she had already written it on several. But as the boys gathered round her she had no thought, of course, save for them. 'So, my beauty, said Hook, as if he spoke in syrup, 'you are to see your children walk the plank.
The dish, however, which was relished above all others was "hasty pudding," cooked slowly for hours, then heaped upon a platter in a great cone, the center scooped out and filled with sweet, fresh butter and honey or maple syrup. In those days every sideboard was liberally supplied with rum, brandy and gin, and every man drank more or less, even the elders and preachers.
Good-night!" ejaculated her brother, "I know better. But those barberries properly prepared with sugar make a mighty nice drink in summer. Our Babette makes barberry syrup, you know." "Ugh! It doesn't taste like these," complained his sister. "Oh, folks! there are those foolish actors again." "Now what are they about?" demanded Ruth.
If the syrup is not sufficiently thick and clear, boil and skim it a little longer till it is. Put the plums into glass jars and pour the syrup warm over them. The flavour will be much improved by boiling in the syrup with the fruit a handful or more of the kernels of plums, blanched in scalding water and broken in half. Take the kernels out of the syrup before you pour it into the jars.
During the bright spring days of sugar-making the young Western mother would wrap her sturdy babe in its blanket and put it in a dry sugar-trough to sleep while she tended the boiling syrup.
"Now mind you don't behave like the rooster! You see what he got for being greedy." The children sucked their pieces slowly, so as to make them last a long time, and while they got themselves all sticky with syrup, José told them the story of Cinderella and her glass slippers and her pumpkin coach, and two ghost stories.
"I who am skilled in these matters have no doubt that it is the herald of some soothing syrup for the human race under the trials of teething." He was standing at the carriage-door till the train would start, and he stood aside to let a young lady and a boy in deep mourning enter. The pair were hardly seated when the girl's eye fell on the great white board and its announcement.
The remainder of the big ham, a strip of bacon, coffee, sugar, syrup, canned milk, and half a sack of flour were among the things which had disappeared. While the three stood there, amazed, Bobby came. "Bet it was those boys," said she. "Playing a joke on us. They're over here somewhere." The sun was just rising, and its early beams shone on the camp across the lake.
It can't go away in such a storm as this. Give me a cloak, a parasol, anything I'll go forth and get a lodging. I'll beg my bread from house to house if this fiend refuses me. Eat the biscuits, dear! A little of the syrup, Alfred darling; it's very nice, love! and come to your old mother your poor old mother." Alfred roared out, "No it's not n-ice: it's n-a-a-asty! I won't have syrup.
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