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Updated: June 29, 2025
"Here's the fag end of a leg of mutton, Mr O'Brien, and there's a piece of boiled pork." "Then I'll just trouble you for a bit close to the knuckle. Peter, you dine in the cabin, so do I the doctor refused." "Have you heard when we sail, Mr O'Brien?" inquired one of my messmates.
But it came out next day that Gwen's pen was still scratching when this lady got to sleep an hour after. "I shouldn't take any violent exercise, if I was you, Mr. Wardle," said Mr. Ekings, the Apothecary, whose name you may remember Michael Ragstroar had borrowed and been obliged to relinquish. "I should be very careful what I ate, avoiding especially pork and richly cooked food.
From hence he went to the parson of East Chinock, and told him that he belonged to a man-of-war, in which his brother was lieutenant. Being then about dinner time, the parson asked if he could eat sea provisions, such as pork and peas, which he readily accepting of, they sat down together, and had a great deal of discourse about the lieutenant.
This proved rather tough as the animal was an old bull, nevertheless the tongue and the tenderloin were relished, after having eaten only salt pork for three weeks. The small stream of water in the Little Blue grew less and less as we approached its source, and the last night that we camped near it, there was no running water at all.
There the two elder ones would teach Rusha her catechism and tell old stories, and croon over old rhymes till both the little ones were asleep, and then would hold counsel on their affairs, settle how to husband their small stock of money, consider how soon it would be expedient to finish their store of salted mutton and pork to keep them from being spoilt by damp, and wonder when their hens would begin to lay.
"Because we have not yet made our weapons, and it may be that we shall have some good chances of getting supplies at the very beginning of our travels. My opinion is that we should arm ourselves before starting, for the pork and cakes cannot last long." This being at once recognised as sound advice, they entered the forest, which was not so thick at that place as it at first appeared to be.
We get up early and we work late, and we sleep hard, and when the weather is good and wages good, and there's plenty in the house, we stay sober and we sadly sing, 'On the other side of Jordan'; but when the weather's heavy and funds scarce, and the pork and molasses and bread come hard, we get drunk, and we sing the comic chanson 'Brigadier, vows avez raison! We've been singing a sad song to-night when we're feeling happy.
The next day Jacob took the venison into Lymington, and brought back the salt and other articles required. The pigs were then killed, and salted down under Jacob's directions; his rheumatism did not allow him to assist, but Humphrey and Edward rubbed in the salt, and Alice took the pieces of pork away to the tub when they were finished.
He had no objection to their human nature, but a strong objection to their religion, which so resembles that of the chosen people being, indeed, chiefly modelled on the Old Testament pattern that he was led to describe them as modern Jews, who only differed from the ancient ones in eating pork.
After a great deal of consultation, it was at last settled, that Ready and William should make the first survey to the southward, and then return and report what they had discovered. This was decided upon on the Saturday evening, and on the Monday morning they were to start. The knapsacks were got ready, and well filled with boiled salt pork, and flat cakes of bread.
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