nut-and-grass

Updated: May 20, 2025

Peters had not found that to be the case. In his hour of affliction it soothed him to read of Hungarian Goulash and escaloped brains, and to remember that he, too, the nut-and-grass eater of today, had once dwelt in Arcadia. The passage of the days, which had so sapped the stamina of the efficient Baxter, had had the opposite effect on Mr. Peters.

P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse - Something New