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Add a piece of butter, a little pepper and salt, and stew them very gently for two hours. When to be served, beat up an egg, and stir it into them, or a bit of flour and butter. Chop a little mint, and stew in them. Gravy may be added, or a tea-spoonful of white powdered sugar; but the flavour of the peas themselves is much better.

'That's Ponto; what can have brought him home? he went with Reginald to chop at the edge of the clearing. The dog was no sooner admitted than he jumped on them both, pulled their gowns, ran back whining, and repeated these movements many times. 'He wants us to go with him, Jay don't you think so? What could be the matter?

GRANDMOTHER: Well, Silas Morton, when you've your wood to chop an' your water to carry, when you kill your own cattle and hogs, tend your own horses and hens, make your butter, soap, and cook for whoever the Lord sends there's none too many hours of the day left to be polite in. SILAS: You're right, mother. It had to be that way.

No, he begins by inquiring, in no uncertain voice, where his dinner is? He then examines his new quarters. Before him stands a parapet, buttressed mayhap with hurdles or balks of timber, the whole being designed to preserve his life from hostile projectiles. How does he treat this bulwark? Unless closely watched, he will begin to chop it up for firewood.

Another. Boil a pint of cream, with some lemon-peel, a blade of mace, half a nutmeg cut in pieces; strain it off, and stir it till it is cold, then boil a good handful of young spinach tender; chop it very fine; beat up eight eggs, leave out four whites, add some fine sugar pounded, and a glass of sack; mix all well together, put it into the dish, with a puff-paste at the bottom, and lay on the top candied orange and lemon cut in thin slices.

Very delicious. Make a batter as on p. 208. Take the fruit from a small can of peaches, lay it on a plate, and sprinkle with a spoonful of sugar and a glass of wine. Let it lie an hour, turning it once. Dip each piece in batter, and drop in boiling lard, or chop and mix with batter. Prepare the juice for a sauce as on p. 172. Fresh peaches or slices of tender apple can be used in the same way.

"But I hate to live in a town where I'm not first chop in everything." "Pshaw!" cried his sister, "I guess it doesn't trouble you much." "Well, I don't know that it does," he admitted. Mrs. Halleck's black coachman drove her to Mrs.

"We might set them all free, and go somewhere in the swamps, and find an island, and live by ourselves; I've heard of its being done. Any life is better than this." "No!" said Tom, firmly. "No! good never comes of wickedness. I'd sooner chop my right hand off!" "Then I shall do it," said Cassy, turning.

I want a little ranch-house in one of the prettiest bits of country God ever made, and I want to do the chores around that ranch-house milk cows, and chop wood, and curry horses, and plough the ground, and all the rest of it; and I want you there in the ranch-house with me. I'm plumb tired of everything else, and clean wore out.

He was to chop two bundles of straw for food for the horses, and then the man threatened: "In five hours," said he, "I shall be back again, and if the straw is not cut to chaff by that time, I will beat thee until thou canst not move a limb." The farmer went with his wife, the man-servant and the girl, to the yearly fair, and left nothing behind for the boy but a small bit of bread.