food-bill

Updated: July 4, 2025

He told me that once in London his weekly food-bill was only two shillings and sevenpence, the result of studying the nourishing values of different food-stuffs, of having no meat and of being his own cook. Presently the two younger men joined us and sat on the grass round the tea-tray.

Katherine Mary Barrow - Three Years in Tristan da Cunha