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To make SAGOO CUSTARDS. Take two ounces of sagoo, wash it in a little water, set it on to cree in a pint of milk, and let it cree till it be tender, when it is cold put to it three jills of cream, boil it altogether with a blade or two of mace, or a stick of cinnamon; take six eggs, leave out the strains, beat them very well, mix a little of your cream amongst your eggs, then mix altogether, keep stirring it as you put it in, so set it over a slow fire, and stir it about whilst it be the thickness of a good cream; you must not let it boil; when you take it off the fire put in a tea cupfull of brandy, and sweeten it to your taste, then put it into pots or glasses for use.

"Stay with me, Lieutenant de Saint-Avit." When we were alone, he poured out another huge cupfull of liqueur. The ceiling of the room was lost in the gray smoke. "What time is it?" I asked. "After midnight. But you are not going to leave me like this, my dear boy? I am heavy-hearted." He wept bitterly. The tail of his coat spread out on the divan behind him like the apple-green wings of a beetle.

I have named them 'Hotel Trees, because they bear a certain kind of table d'hote fruit called 'Three-Course Nuts." "That's funny!" said Betsy. "What are the 'Three-Course Nuts' like?" "Something like cocoanuts, to look at," explained the Ugly One. "All you have to do is to pick one of them and then sit down and eat your dinner. You first unscrew the top part and find a cupfull of good soup.

When he left us, he sent us a present of Aheer dates, which were large and exceedingly well tasted. 22d. We stopped in the valley of Taghajeet all day, waiting for the Haghars, but they did not make their appearance. In the morning early, I distributed powder and shot to about forty of our people. Each had half a cupfull of powder and twelve shots.

She plied the young man with two or three cups in succession of that fiery liquor, and I also bitterly swallowed half a cupfull at the importunity of the youth; at last, the shameless harlot likewise got beastly drunk, and took very unbecoming liberties with that vile youth; and the mean wretch also, in his intoxication, having become regardless, began to be disrespectful, and behave indecently.