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When all was done, Isaac locked the cupboard, and solemnly presented the key to John, who added it to the other round his neck. Then Bessie unlocked the kitchen, and set the children flying, to help her with the supper. She was in her most bustling and vivacious mood, and she had never cooked the bloaters better or provided a more ample jug of beer. But John was silent and depressed.
Then he peeped into the kitchen, where Crass was still seated by the fire, smoking and toasting one of the bloaters at the end of a pointed stick. Bert wished he would go upstairs, or anywhere, so that he himself might go and have a warm at the fire. ''E might just as well 'ave let me do them bloaters, he muttered to himself, regarding Crass malignantly through the crack of the door.
Also, when bloaters, sprats, or sausages were in question, it was well not to feed in the room in which the smell of preparation was most powerful. Though the half was drawing to its close, the evening board was bountifully spread; for Forsyth's birthday had come off two days before, and brought with it a token from home a wicker token which the Lord Mayor himself would not have despised.
I expect that's what has made Rover so hungry. He isn't a greedy dog. Not at all." "Very likely," said Codd, as the dog rose, and, after sniffing the air, gently wagged his tail and trotted forward. "Where' she off to now?" "He can smell the bloaters, I expect," said Mrs. Bunker, laughing. "It's wonderful what intelligence he's got. Come here, Rover!"
It is worth going from London at the season of the year when the finest bloaters are being caught, to realize the peril and the enterprise and the industry connected with the herring trade, which employs some five hundred boats, manned by seven to twelve men, who work the business on the cooperative system, which, when the season is a good one, gives a handsome remuneration to all concerned, and which drains the country of young men for miles around.
"What's Aunt Betsy's little game?... No, it's all right the butter's too hard to hurt.... Down Chiswick way, ain't she?" "Hammersmith." Aunt M'riar wasn't talkative; but then, this morning, it was bloaters. They should only just hot through, or they dry. "Who was the bloke he was talking about? Somebody he called him." Uncle Mo's ears had been too sharp. "There!
And her heart stood still. She was white to the lips as she sat down on a convenient sack of maize. "It is a long walk," said the postmaster, hunting about for the letter. "Dear me, wherrs I put it?" And he looked in a box of bloaters and a basket of eggs. "Here it is. I 'member now; I put it safe with the cheese was to go to Dinas."
"A pound and a 'arf o' the best rump steak in Wapping." "Never mind," said Mrs. Bunker sweetly, "cook some more. I can wait." "Cook some more," said the skipper to the mate, who still lingered. "I'll cook some bloaters. That's all we've got now," replied the mate sulkily. "It's a lovely morning," said Mrs. Bunker, as the mate retired, "the air is so fresh.
But the human race has still to learn that girls need good meals just as much as, or more than, persons of maturer years. Boys are no better off at many places; but boys have opportunities of adding bloaters and chops to their breakfasts, which would be considered horribly indelicate and insubordinate conduct in girls.
In answer to the loud summons, a red-faced little man opened the door and let out into the night a smell of bloaters and tea the smell that pervades all Farlingford at six o'clock in the evening. "Something on the Inner Curlo Bank," shouted the coast-guard in his face, and turning on his heel, he ran with the same slow, organised haste, leaving the red-faced man finishing a mouthful on the mat.
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