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But when they were grown up, the eldest said one day: "Mother, I'm a young woman now, and it's a shame for me to be here doing nothing to help you or myself. Bake me a bannock and cut me a callop, till I go away to push my fortune." The mother baked her a whole bannock, and asked her if she would have half of it with her blessing or the whole of it without.
But in nae event cry on me, for I am wearied wi' doudling the bag o' wind a' day, and I am gaun to eat my dinner quietly in the spence. And if ye ken ony puir body o' our acquaintance that's blate for want o' siller, and has far to gang hame, ye needna stick to gie them a waught o' drink and a bannock we'll ne'er miss't, and it looks creditable in a house like ours.
Some wild duck and some bannock with black molasses, together with strong black tea, made a palatable supper after a long day on the breezy prairie. After supper the men sat smoking. "The oats in, Mac?" "They are sowed, but not harrowed yet. I will be doing that to-morrow in the morning." "Potato ground ready?" "Yes, the ground is ready, and the seed is over at Garneau's."
Delaney was making bannock for the next morning's meal, while I with cotton and crochet needle was making trimming for the dresses of Mrs. Pritchards nine half-breed babies. I threw the trimming work to the other end of the tent, and Mrs. Delaney called upon Mrs. Pritchard to finish making the bannocks herself, and we both rushed out just as the scouts galloped in.
But still my heart was sore for mother, and sore, too, for the tale of changed times in Campbell country my father told me over a breakfast of braddan, fresh caught in a creel from the Gearron river, oaten bannock, and cream. After breakfast I got me into my kilt for town.
Swan watched his chance and gave Lone a chunk of bannock as a substitute for breakfast, and Lone, I may add, dropped behind his companions and ate every crumb of it, in spite of his worry over Lorraine. Indeed, Swan eased that worry too, when they were climbing the pine slope where Al had killed the grouse.
But it's a long story and I can't walk." "Then you have nothing to eat?" said Thirlwell sharply. "Half a small bannock; I ate the rest this morning. The worst was I had only melted snow to drink." Thirlwell made a sympathetic gesture, for men who camp in the frozen woods consume large quantities of nearly boiling tea.
The only bread on hand was the remainder of Philip's last baking of bannock. "See how things are," suggested Colonel Howell, when these articles were passed up to Roy, "and if they're as bad as Chandler says, we'll have to send Philip out for a moose. These things'll carry 'em along for a few days at least." The look on the young Count's face was such that Norman was disturbed.
Pelliter's first move was to get whisky, and the other drank it in great gulps. Then he dragged himself to his feet, and Pelliter sank in a chair beside the table. "I'm sick," he said. "Sergeant MacVeigh has gone to Churchill, and I guess I'm in a bad way. You'll have to help yourself. There's meat 'n' bannock " Whisky had revived the new-comer.
Sometimes, laying books aside, he told us old tales that he had heard from his mother, who in turn had heard them from hers of the Red Etain of Ireland who lived in Belligand, and who stole the King's daughter, the King of fair Scotland; and the pathetic tale of the bannock that went to see the world, with its cynical end: "Ah, well! We'll all be in the tod's hole in less than a hunner years."
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