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But if ground is scarce, vines or lima beans can be trained up the back porch or up the sunny side of the house; or a few climbing nasturtiums will give decorations without care, while the young leaves make a good salad. Of home orchard fruits, the plum, pear, and quince are all profitable specialties, especially for intensive acre raising.
"Vell, gentlemans, and vat vill you haf this time?" he inquired. "Everything you've got," said Berwick shortly. "A salad and after dinner coffee for my friend," put in Jim, "and I will take" and here Jim enumerated a bill of fare that would have done credit to two men. "The same for me," said the engineer, imperturbably, when James had finished his little spiel.
If human thought, ordained by an omniscient Creator, had been intended to be what it has become, altogether different from mechanical thoughts and resignation, so exacting, inquiring, agitated, tormented, would the world which was created to receive the beings which we now are, have been this unpleasant little dwelling place for poor fools, this salad plot, this rocky wooded and spherical kitchen garden where your improvident Providence had destined us to live naked, in caves or under trees, nourished on the flesh of slaughtered animals, our brethren, or on raw vegetables nourished by the sun and the rain?
Every time she was coming back, she uttered a shriek, which made all the little urchins come round, and, down below, beneath the garden hedge, she vaguely saw a row of mischievous heads, making various grimaces as they laughed. When a servant girl came out, they ordered lunch. "Some fried fish, a stewed rabbit, salad, and dessert," Madame Dufour said, with an important air.
In the Spanish proverb, the fourth man necessary to compound a salad, is a madman to mix it: Jack is that madman. I know not which is more remarkable; the insane lucidity of his conclusions the humorous eloquence of his language, or his power of method, bringing the whole of life into the focus of the subject treated, mixing the conversational salad like a drunken god.
Speaking with respect, he was a good pig. It is one of his hams that we have cut. There is also salad, and fresh bread, which you like. And wine, I will not speak of it. Eh, he likes wine, the Englishman! He comes in with a long, long face and when he goes to bed, his face is wide, wide. That is the wine. But then, it does nothing else to him. It only changes his face.
Meanwhile Miss White had carried her salad dressing in to Marie, and had gone out again to the veranda where Macleod was seated. He was charmed with the dreamy stillness and silence of the place, with the hanging foliage all around, and the colors in the steep gardens, and the still waters below. "I don't see how it is," said he, "but you seem to have much more open houses here than we have.
After peeling, slice them very thin; sprinkle a little salt over them; let stand ten minutes, and add cayenne, and equal parts of oil and vinegar. If allowed to remain in salt water any length of time, if oil is omitted, or if their natural juices are squeezed out of them, they become indigestible. CURRANT SALAD. Put a pint of red currants in the centre of a compote.
"If I could have a little salad," said the abbess. "Maria," she added suddenly, "you are careful to keep your face covered when you are in the next room, are you not?" "Always." "You generally do not raise your veil until you come into this room, after the doctor is gone," said the elder lady. "He went so soon, to-day," answered Maria Addolorata, with perfectly innocent truth.
Nothing could have been prettier, sweeter, or better suited to the place; all was very simple, and apparently the whole place was hospitably free to the poor women who ranged over it, digging chiccory for salad out of the meadows. The daisies were thick as white clover, and the harsh purple of the anemones showed everywhere.
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