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She would herself pour some hot water into the slop basin, and put a pikelet on a plate thereon, covered, to keep warm for father. She would not hear a word about the toast being a little hard, and when Maggie in her curious quiet way `stuck her out' that the toast was in fact hard, she said that that precise degree of hardness was the degree which she, for herself, preferred.
Bellew, sir, and that's me Sergeant Appleby, at your service, sir. My cottage lies down the road yonder, an easy march if you will step that far? Speaking for my comrade and myself we shall be proud for you to take tea with us muffins sir shrimps, Mr. Bellew also a pikelet or two. Not a great feast but tolerable good rations, sir and plenty of 'em what do you say?"
In the seas, in the lakes, and in the rivers, there are fewer fish from year to year. In our Pestchanka, I remember, pike used to be caught a yard long, and there were eel-pouts, and roach, and bream, and every fish had a presentable appearance; while nowadays, if you catch a wretched little pikelet or perch six inches long you have to be thankful.
"My pore dears!" said Brownie, hastily supplying him with the largest scone in sight. "Now, Master Wally, my love, ain't you ready for another? Your appetite's not 'alf wot it used to be. A pikelet, now?" "I believe I've had six!" said Wally, defending himself. "An' wot used six pikelets to be to you? A mere fly in the ointment," said Brownie, whose similes were always apt to be peculiar.
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