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D had promised us at this splendid house of entertainment, where we were destined to stay for two hours, to refresh ourselves and rest the horses. "Well, Mrs. J , what have you got for our dinner?" said our driver, after he had seen to the accommodation of his teams. "Pritters and pork, sir. Nothing else to be had in the woods. Thank God, we have enough of that!" Vulgar Canadian for potatoes.
D had promised us at this splendid house of entertainment, where we were destined to stay for two hours, to refresh ourselves and rest the horses. "Well, Mrs. J, what have you got for our dinner?" said the driver, after he had seen to the accommodation of his teams. "Pritters and pork, sir. Nothing else to be had in the woods. Thank God, we have enough of that!"
'We ain't got no manners in the bush, nor don't want 'em, as I tell Mary here, when she talks any palaver. Now, wife, them pritters must be done; and he left his seat on the table to pry over her pan. 'Then take the cakes out of the bake-kettle, will you? said Mary; 'and if them ducks be raw, 'tain't my fault, remember. She was evidently a woman of few words, but trenchant.
'Don't you be sparing of the pritters I'm rael hungry: and with his national celerity, the viands disappeared. When the meal was ended, Robert, as always, returned thanks to God for His mercies, in a few reverent words. The boy stared. 'I guess I hain't never heerd the like of that 'afore, he remarked. 'Sure, God ain't nowhar hereabouts?
The bishop who complained of partridges every day should have been condemned to three months' feeding upon pork in the bush; and he would have become an anchorite, to escape the horrid sight of swine's flesh for ever spread before him. No wonder I am thin; I have been starved starved upon pritters and port, and that disgusting specimen of unleavened bread, yclept cakes in the pan.
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