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That is easy, and will not take more than a minute. "Let it lie in a dish!" That is easy, because it already is in it. "Bring it here! Let me sup!" It is easy to set such a dish on the table. "Take the dish-cover up!" Ah, THAT is so hard that I fear I'm unable!
If one kind of game be lacking, some other the first to hand will very well replace it. Neither is there much trouble in establishing the site of his industry. A capacious dish-cover of wire gauze is sufficient, resting on an earthen pan filled to the brim with fresh, heaped sand.
One more jingle, and, with magical swiftness and deftness, each dish-cover was lifted, and a delightful perfume of savory viands gushed forth amidst the half-suppressed "Ahs" of the assembled and hungry diners. Then the procession of dark-skinned waiters, bearing the dish-covers, filed back to the pantry, and the real business of the day began.
Jenks secured a ham and some biscuits, some pieces of driftwood and the binoculars, and invited Miss Deane to accompany him to the grove. She obeyed without a word, though she wondered how he proposed to light a fire. To contribute something towards the expected feast she picked up a dish-cover and a bottle of champagne. The sailor eyed the concluding item with disfavor.
He winked at Stephen and, replacing the dish-cover, began to eat again. There was a silence while he ate. Then he said: Well now, the day kept up fine after all. There were plenty of strangers down too. Nobody spoke. He said again: I think there were more strangers down than last Christmas.
He knew he was alive, that there was something he wanted somewhere, something real and satisfying if only he could find it find out what it was. For twenty years he had been living automatically. Alfred Thompson suddenly felt free and careless. The butler yearned! He hesitated, gave the dish-cover an extra polish, then called through the door to Mrs.
The glass was set upon a table facing the open window. Upon entering the room the moths could not fail to see the prisoner, as she stood directly in the way. The tray, containing a layer of sand, on which the female had passed the preceding day and night, covered with a wire-gauze dish-cover, was in my way.
Ah, Sorrow," sais I, "something smells good here; is it a moose steak? Take off that dish-cover." "Ah, Massa," said he, as he removed it, "dat are is lubbly, dat are a fac." When I looked at it, I said very gravely "Take it away, Sorrow, I can't eat it; you have put the salt and pepper on it before you broiled it, and drawn out all the juice. It's as dry as leather. Take it away."
Thanks to her own neat-handed ways and Hepsey's prompting through the slide, Christie got on very well; managed her salver dexterously, only upset one glass, clashed one dish-cover, and forgot to sugar the pie before putting it on the table; an omission which was majestically pointed out, and graciously pardoned as a first offence.
Some of the things they brought him to carve, were such outrageous practical jokes, though, that it was impossible to stand it; and when Tom Pinch insisted, in spite of the deferential advice of an attendant, not only on breaking down the outer wall of a raised pie with a tablespoon, but on trying to eat it afterwards, John lost all dignity, and sat behind the gorgeous dish-cover at the head of the table, roaring to that extent that he was audible in the kitchen.
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