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The Scot averred that better men than Mahomet had been bred on barley bannocks, and that the flat coarse cakes of the Berbers were as near them as a heathen could be expected to come. He also warned them that Moses knew what he was about when he forbade pork to his people, and that the pigs that ran in the streets of an African town were very different eating from the beech-fed hogs of Kent.
But although she shook him with all her might, she could not wake him. It was very plain to see that he was bewitched. Frightened almost out of her senses, and leaving the Fairies eating her last batch of bannocks, she stole out of the house and ran as fast as she could to the cottage of the Wise Man who lived a mile away.
was, in the midst of a company, distributing the cakes and bannocks with maidenly grace; and many a swain that night was glad, while "He quhissilit and he pypit baith, To mak her blyth that meeting My hony heart, how says the sang, There sall be mirth at oor greeting."
He went out and bought in supplies, stocking his chest with plain country fare. At dinner time he sat on the lid, as fishermen do, and made a good solid meal of flat bannocks and cold bacon. And now he fell-to at his new work. There was no question of whether it was what he wanted or not; here was a chance of getting up in the world, and that without having to beg any one's leave.
'Ay, interrupted the old lady, 'ye shall have meat and drink. Nane shall come to a burying at my hoose and no have meat and drink before they gang awa. Set oot the bannocks and honey and milk, Mary, for the lads, then mak ready the bacon and eggs.
Each morning he found on his little table a supply of food and drink, all good of their kind and plenty boiled beef or mutton, oaten cakes, pease bannocks, and always the jack of small-beer but never did he see human hand place them there, never did human form cheer him by its presence.
Upon this they made tea, heated pemmican and bannocks, and thawed a jar of preserves Jessie had made the previous summer of service berries and wild raspberries. Before it they dried their moccasins, socks, and leggings. Afterward they separated to make a round of the traps, agreeing to meet an hour and a half later at the place of their dinner camp.
It was no small surprise to find how much art there is in doing it. At first I thought I could teach the men a lot of things about cooking bannocks, but it was not long before I began to suspect that I had something to learn. They were made simply with the flour, salt, baking-powder and water, but without any shortening. This made them tough, but they carried better so.
The straw was burned to dry the grain, the breeze win'd it, the quern ground it, the fire cooked the bannocks of it Then a cow was milked, a couple of eggs were found in the loft, and I sat down in a marvellously short space of time to bread and butter, milk, eggs, and a little drop of spirits that was the only ready-made provand in the house.
She's no' like ane o' the same family. I mind ae stormy night in the last winter, when Carver had shut the door in my face, Thora cam' after me and, 'Colin, says she, 'come away here, and I'll gie ye a bed in the byre; and with that she took me in among the kine and gied me some oaten bannocks and a flagon o' warm milk.
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