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We thanked the Lord that we had some cooked meat and a few johnny-cakes left, for we didn't feel equal to cooking. We put the billy of tea and our tucker-bags between the heads of our beds, and the pipes and tobacco in the crown of an old hat, where we could reach them without having to get up. Then we lay down on our stomachs and had a feed.
Wasn't one even just dimly aware of the heavy hush that, in the glazed gallery, among the sausages and the johnny-cakes, had followed the first gasp of resentment?
"If you'll stay, I'll make you a johnny-cake on a new ash shingle with my own hands." "Thank you, I really must go back. But if there's a johnny-cake already made, I could easily take it along." "My johnny-cakes do not bear transportation." "I wouldn't transport it far, you know." "Do stay! Major Falconer will be so disappointed.
It was Lady Bridget who would set the billy boiling and who, after one or two failures, succeeded in making excellent johnny-cakes.
'You made me my first johnny-cakes upon it.... And to-night is the beginning of our married life and oh, Colin, it is the first time I have felt really married to you, and I want a bit of the bush to remember it by. He kissed her again.... The miracle was accomplished. He seemed to have no words in which to say all that filled his heart. The night sounds of the bush stirred the vast silence.
"We shall starve together likely enough," said Joshua mournfully. "I've heard that the French eat horse-flesh. If it comes to the worst, we can kill your horse and try a horse-steak." "It's all he's fit for, and he ain't fit for that. We'll move on for a couple of hours and see if somethin' won't turn up. I tell you, Joe, I'd give all the money I've got for some of marm's johnny-cakes.
You will then be a Squire, with your cane, your lean-limbed hound, your stocking-leg of specie, and your snuffbox. You will be the happy and respected husband of some tidy old lady in black, and spectacles, a little phthisicky, like Frank's grandmother, and an accomplished cook of stewed pears and Johnny-cakes!
He himself was going to boil the quart-pot tea and would give Biddy a demonstration in johnny-cakes, made bush fashion at their own camp fire. The sheet of bark had been cut into sections one sub-divided into small squares to serve as plates. The inside looked clean as paint, and smelled of Mother Nature's still-room.
In winter the parson's family fared worse; one minister declared that he had had nothing but mush and milk with occasional "cracker johnny-cakes" all winter, and that he had not once tasted meat in that space of time, save at a funeral or ordination-supper, where I doubt not he gorged with the composure and capacity of a Sioux brave at a war feast.
"Of course you can't; it 's snowing hard, and father won't be home with the carriage till this evening. What are you always cutting off to Polly's for?" "I like it; we have such nice times, and Will is there, and we bake little johnny-cakes in the baker before the fire, and they sing, and it is so pleasant." "Warbling johnny-cakes must be interesting. Come and tell me all about it."
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