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Updated: May 7, 2025
That blue crystalline flood that gushed from the Lake of Leman, unsullied by a particle of earth, is now a river of brown mud thick as pea-soup, and as nutritious. The stones that would have killed all vegetation have been pounded into a condition so attenuated, that they form rich alluvial matter. The river now seeks to deposit all this mud.
As we left her cottage, and jogged on, Emilia whispered, laughing, "I hope you are satisfied with your good dinner? Was not the pea-soup excellent? and that cup of nice hot tea! I never relished anything more in my life. I think we should never pass that house without giving Hannah a call, and testifying our gratitude for her good cheer." Many times did we stop to inquire the way to Mrs.
The effects of this food were as wonderful in my instance as in that of the poor starved bricklayer shortly before; for, when I had eaten the last biscuit crumb and drained the final drop of pea-soup from the basin, I felt a new man, or rather boy Allan Graham himself, and not the wretched feeble nonentity I had been previously.
Old Chapdelaine's voice was husky but still cheerful as he answered: "Tough! Edwige, tough! The pea-soup will soon be ready." And in truth it was not long before Maria, once more on the door-step, shaping her hands to carry the sound, sent forth the ringing call to dinner. Toward evening a breeze arose and a delicious coolness fell upon the earth like a pardon. But the sky remained cloudless.
"I'll digest it," said he, slapping his thigh one day when he was left alone in the house. "We'll all di-gest it together!" He jumped up, took the lid off a pot of pea-soup that was boiling on the fire, and dropped the hated book into it. "What's this i' the soup, Nell?" said David that day at dinner, as he fished a mass of curious substance out of the pot.
Here the river took a sharp turn, and came tearing round a corner, the colour and consistency of pea-soup, and making such a noise we could hardly hear ourselves speak standing close together on the bank; once in the stream, of course it would be hopeless to try to catch a word.
The Scot's warning was not without reason, for next moment Jerry was up to the knees in the stream between two oxen, who, closing on each other, almost burst him. Easing off, they let him drop on hands and knees, and he remained in that position drinking thankfully. The whole place was quickly stirred up into a muddy compound like pea-soup, but neither man nor beast was particular.
Then it presented itself to their contemplation in full force, and apparently without any loophole to escape from it. What was to be done for a cooking-stove? Snowball sighed as he thought of his caboose, with all its paraphernalia of pots and pans, especially his great copper, in which he had been accustomed to boil mountains of meat and oceans of pea-soup.
The work was carried out with an astounding clamour, those natives in the water diving to the bottom and breaking up the fallen earth still further till each pool became of the colour and something of the consistency of green pea-soup.
As he advanced through the forest he was preceded by twelve pioneers, who carried long forked poles, with which they kept back the branches as the party moved forward; at the same time they pointed out any dangers in the road. The heat was intense. Into a lake at which they arrived the horses rushed by hundreds, making the water as thick as pea-soup.
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