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Home from my office to my Lord's lodgings where my wife had got ready a very fine dinner viz. a dish of marrow bones; a leg of mutton; a loin of veal; a dish of fowl, three pullets, and a dozen of larks all in a dish; a great tart, a neat's tongue, a dish of anchovies; a dish of prawns and cheese. My company was my father, my uncle Fenner, his two sons, Mr. 28th, I went to Mr.
Put one prawn on the top of it, and lay the others, all round, as close as you can, with the tails outside. Garnish with parsley. Eat them with salt, cayenne, sweet oil, mustard and vinegar, mixed together as for lobsters. Crabs are boiled in the same manner, and in serving up may be arranged like prawns.
"Oh, what horrid creatures!" cried Lucien, starting back; "if it wasn't for their light color, you might take them for prawns with their heads cut off." "Yes, if you didn't examine them too closely. I suppose you will be very surprised when I tell you that they are allied to the spider tribe." "I should never have suspected it. Are they dead, then, for they do not move?"
"There, you see, you can't ask, and it's no use to signal to them in the lugger, because they couldn't understand, so you've got to take the boat, and we shall be back long before they are." "But it would be so horrible if we were to meet with any accident this time," said Bigley. "You know how unlucky we were over the prawns. There, we'd better not go!" "There's a Molly for you!" cried Bob.
To catch some, you must use a "shrimp-net," for they can dart across the pool like arrows. Some are Shrimps, and some are Prawns; how can we tell the difference? When they are boiled the answer is easy. All the Shrimps turn brown and the Prawns red. That of the Prawn is toothed, like a little saw. If the beak is quite smooth its wearer is a Shrimp.
To our great satisfaction the crab was still inside alive and uninjured; but we found no more relics of our expedition. The other baskets were gone with the eel and prawns, and the third net was wanting. I must except, though, one of Bigley's shoes, which had been cast up four hundred yards from the rock pool, and lay at high-water mark in a heap of sea-weed, battered wreck-wood and shells.
Keith sighed. "I wish I had not eaten so many of those prawns," he added. "What are you thinking?" "I think modern education over-emphasizes the intellect. I suppose that comes from the scientific trend of the times. You cannot obtain a useful citizen if you only develop his intellect. We take children from their parents because these cannot give them an intellectual training. So far, good.
"How strange every thing looks, am I dreaming?" said he as he saw piles of fish, clams, prawns and lobsters lying on a board all around him. "Ugh, what is that?" clapping himself shut as a great black-nosed and long-whiskered dog poked his muzzle near him. Poor shell-fish!
The articles mentioned were, on examination, found to consist of: "Thirty big deer; five thousand musk deer; fifty roebuck deer; twenty Siamese pigs; twenty boiled pigs; twenty 'dragon' pigs; twenty wild pigs; twenty home-salted pigs; twenty wild sheep; twenty grey sheep; twenty home-boiled sheep; twenty home-dried sheep; two hundred sturgeon; two hundred catties of mixed fish; live chickens, ducks and geese, two hundred of each; two hundred dried chickens, ducks and geese; two hundred pair of pheasants and hares; two hundred pair of bears' paws; twenty catties of deer tendons; fifty catties of beche-de-mer; fifty deer tongues; fifty ox tongues; twenty catties of dried clams; filberts, fir-cones, peaches, apricots and squash, two hundred bags of each; fifty pair of salt prawns; two hundred catties of dried shrimps; a thousand catties of superfine, picked charcoal; two thousand catties of medium charcoal; twenty thousand catties of common charcoal; two piculs of red rice, grown in the imperial grounds; fifty bushels of greenish, glutinous rice; fifty bushels of white glutinous rice; fifty bushels of pounded non-glutinous rice; fifty bushels of various kinds of corn and millet; a thousand piculs of ordinary common rice.
On the contrary, he draws a chair up to our table. "Do they ever get prawns here?" say I, with apparent irrelevancy, not being able to disengage my mind from the thought of shell-fish, "or is it too far inland? His mouth curves into a sudden smile. "Was that why you came to look?" I laugh. "I did not mean to be seen: that person must have had eyes in the back of his head."
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