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"I'll order the chocolate for you and have it cooling," for there was more trouble with Flossie's skate and Nan had stopped to help her fix it. "Don't order chocolate for me, Bert!" called Nan. "I want malted milk. The chocolate is too sweet." "Guess you're afraid of your complexion, Sis!" laughed Bert, as he went inside the little wooden house.
And the cup of malted milk she brought with her was just as huge, just as hot, just as steaming, only this time she had smuggled two raw eggs into it. Once more the Senior Surgeon took the cup without comment and shut the door in her face. At twelve o'clock she came again. The Senior Surgeon was unusually loquacious this time. "Have you any more malted milk?" he asked tersely.
Pee-wee demanded. "Positively lemonade, grape juice, root beer " "Malted milk also. And a sandwich goes with it. I think that cup was made for a bronze cross scout. Come over here a minute." Pee-wee went over and stood between the knees of Scoutmaster Ned. "He's mine, Bill," said Ned to his fellow scoutmaster, "I saw him first." Meanwhile you should have seen the face of Justice of the Peace Fee.
The list included malted milk, condensed milk, oatmeal, cornmeal, canned fruits, dried fruits, rice, tea, chocolate, and even prepared beefsteak and vegetables, and other things good for men who could not eat army rations. "Now, Colonel, when will you send for these supplies?" asked Dr. Gardner. "They will be ready any time."
She quickly convinced me, however, that such was the only refreshment which she would consider, and she recoiled with unconcealed aversion from my suggestion of a Mocha Malted and an Eva Tanguay. That night I tasted wine for the first time, and my reformation began. It was hard at first, desperately hard.
Principalities and powers are in league against us. If the malt has lost its favor, wherewith shall it be malted?" He paused a moment, as though expecting a little applause, and Theodolinda murmured an encouraging "Here, here." With rekindled eye he resumed. "Alcohol, I say, will never be more than a memory. Yet even a memory must be kept alive. The great tradition must not die.
Fifteen minutes later, just as, very wearily, I was putting out my light, Edith pushed open my door again with a cup of something steaming hot in her hand. "Here," she said. "Malted milk, good and hot, with just a dash of sherry in it. 'Twill make you sleep. You drink it, poor child wonderful child too! You jump in and drink it! I'll fix the windows and the lights."
They brought with them a wagon-load of supplies, including everything necessary for a small Red Cross emergency station, and in less than two hours they were refreshing all the wounded men in the camp with corn-meal gruel, hot malted milk, beef extract, coffee, and a beverage known as "Red Cross cider," made by stewing dried apples or prunes in a large quantity of water, and then pouring off the water, adding to it the juice of half a dozen lemons or limes, and setting it into the brook in closed vessels to cool.
But, by luck, I happen to think that I have my old logarithm-book in my pocket you know, the one that's bound in black patent-leather. Looks sorta as if it might be a prayer-book or somethin' like that. Anyway, the widow, bein' a frawg widow, I figgered how she'd think maybe it was a Yank Bible issued special to the A.E.F. and condensed like malted milk or somethin'.
His brother Abraham was a cripple, having no use in either of his legs; but he had an appearance of intelligence and wit in his face, which his brother in no degree shared, and he was very powerful with his arms. It was he who chiefly made the spirits, while Dan and the others procured the barley brought it up to Aughacashel, malted it, and afterwards disposed of the whiskey.
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