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Updated: May 22, 2025
Fish was very cheap." This remark sounds the key-note of a great English want cheaper fish. Of meat we already eat enough, or too much; but of fish we might eat more, if it could be brought at a low price to our doors. Besides the bread and oatmeal above named, the bannock played its part.
I said you were living in a garret, that you never saw a razor, and lived on oatmeal porridge and whisky, and that your only amusement was going out at night and risking your neck in this delightful boat of mine. You should have seen him examining this remarkable vessel. And there were two ladies on board, and they were asking after you, too." "Who were they?" "I don't know.
He was a partner in a house in some large way spirits, or buttons, or wine, or blacking, or oatmeal, or woollen, or pork, or hooks and eyes, or iron, or treacle, or shoes, or something or other that was wanted for troops, or seamen, or somebody and the house burst, and we being among the creditors, detainees were lodged on the part of the Crown in a scientific manner, and all the rest Of it.
I thanked him for what he was doing in a weak, broken sort of way, and Lashly held open the little round tent door to let me see the last of him. He strode out nobly and finely I wondered if I should ever see him, again. Then Lashly came in to me, shut the tent door, and made me a little porridge out of some oatmeal we got from the last depot we had passed.
"You told me only this morning that the thing was up, and that we should soon be slaves for life; working sixteen hours a day for no wages, and living on oatmeal porridge and potatoes, served out by the millocrats like a regular Bastile." "But, as Madam Carey says, when things are at the worst " "Oh!
Then she stirred in oatmeal until it was a stiff paste. She spread a sheet over her bed and began tearing strips of old muslin. She bandaged each hand and arm with the mixture and plastered the soggy, evil-smelling stuff in a thick poultice over her face and neck. She was so tired she went to sleep, and when she awoke she was half skinned.
If she goes out to a restaurant and does not care for meat, she will recollect that its properties may be found more or less in eggs, in milk, in lentils, in haricot beans, in oatmeal, and in peas. Oatmeal porridge and milk form an excellent, inexpensive, and nutritious lunch or midday dinner.
Dinner: boiled potatoes, pork scraps, hot biscuits, milk. Wednesday. Breakfast: oatmeal, fried potatoes, warmed over biscuits. Luncheon: for Billy: cold biscuits, two hard-boiled eggs, bread pudding; for Dick and me: baked potatoes, cold biscuits, bread pudding. Dinner: beef stew with dumplings, hot biscuits, milk. Thursday. Breakfast: fried sausages, baked potatoes, graham muffins, milk.
"The very thing!" added Mother. And Wienerwurst, curled up by the rosy kitchen stove, barked, "Woof, woof, woof." Now this means a lot of things. But this time it meant, "Good, good, good." So the three happy children hurried through their oatmeal. They hurried so fast that they had three little pains.
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