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Updated: May 15, 2025
Gabriel began to carve second helpings as soon as he had finished the first round without serving himself. Everyone protested loudly so that he compromised by taking a long draught of stout for he had found the carving hot work.
Pelley has got used to the open fire you can't drive her away from it with a stick and she don't seem to bother her head about Ivy's cooking and last week she actually ate three helpings of hamburger steak that Ivy said was just reeking with onions. "A body's never too old to learn, I suppose. There's Henry Rawlins suddenly took the notion to quit smoking.
Everyone was hungry, and did full justice to "Brownie's" forethought; while Norah, behind the tall teapot, declared that it was a job for two men and a boy to pour out for such a thirsty trio. Harry helped the fruit salad, and Harry's helpings were based on his own hunger, and would have suited Goliath.
Onct I asked Buffalo Bill what wuz th' main thing fer a scout n' he says silence. I guess they don't make that kind. "I wish yer all good luck and I congratulate you youngsters that are getting awards. If yer all got your just deserts " "I get three helpings," came a voice from somewhere in the audience. It was the voice of Pee-wee Harris. "I get my just desserts!"
There was water to drink, also cider in season, also milk, sweet and sour, and the very best of the homemade wine. Decanters of it sat up and down the table you could fill up and come again at pleasure. The one drawback was it was hard to eat properly, when you were so interrupted by helpings to something else. If there was a fault in our old-time cooking, it was its lack of selection.
Neugass's festive board, rather fowl, in a white glue of gravy and great creamy dumplings, and under three helpings and the steady pour of an extra lager the great Auchinloss had expanded and expounded. His glance, still warmed, took in Lilly at a sweep finding resting place at the swell of her bosom.
You catch one of them after dinner, just as he is wondering if he was really wise in taking two helpings of the lobster Newburg, and he is clay in your hands. I draw my chair up to his and become sympathetic and say that I had precisely the same trouble myself until recently and mention a dear old friend of mine who died of indigestion, and gradually lead the conversation round to Nervino.
Silvey shrugged his shoulders and admitted that the entertainment had its alluring side. "Chocolate cake," he repeated. "Just think, all you can eat." There was an envious silence. "Strawberry ice cream. Three helpings to a fellow; and I'll have more, 'cause I wouldn't let you throw cucumbers at Louise." His chum's face grew wistful. "S'long," said John exuberantly.
In our first eagerness to conform to custom, we both overshot the mark, and grabbed at disproportionate helpings. The waiters politely observed that we were taking what was meant for two; and as the courses followed in interminable sequence, we soon acquired the tact of what was due to us. Meanwhile the room grew warm.
Emily's t' have some t' eat after we has breakfast." Dinner was a great success. There were roast ptarmigans stuffed with fine-chopped pork and bread, and the unwonted luxuries of butter and sugar and then the plum pudding served with molasses for sauce. That was fine, and Emily had to have two helpings of it.
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