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Updated: June 7, 2025
Upon the fourth, smoking and olent Rio, puddings of Indian, cakes composed of one third butter, one third flour, one third saleratus, and the crisping bean, surmounted by crimped pork, showed that a Providence Yankee might well find an appropriate entertainment. But again the eyes of Roseton looked vacantly on, and again, amid strains of music, the walls of the pyramid ascended.
Now, when they came to split up his enterprises among his sons, one of 'em took the temple for a living. His name was Lum Shan. But Fu Shan says, Lum would rather come over to America and go into business in Saleratus. Lum Shan don't like his temple, but I don't know why. Well, then, I says, 'Speak up, Fu Shan. Don't be bashful, Asia. If you've got a medicine for the hopeless, let it come, Asia.
He conceived that in some manner he could get rid of his bonds at night; that Saleratus Bill must necessarily sleep; and that there might be a chance to surprise the gun-man then. But when night came, Saleratus Bill disappeared into the outer darkness; nor did he return until morning.
Some trains were without fruit, and most of them depended upon saleratus for raising their bread. Many had only fat bacon for meat until the buffalo supplied a change; and no doubt much of the sickness attributed to the cholera was caused by bad diet. I am willing to claim credit to myself for the team, every hoof of which reached the Coast in safety.
The resources of the house also afforded certain very hot biscuits or breadcakes, in a high state of saleratus; indeed, it must have been from association with these, that certain yellow streaks in Mr. Ruskin's drawing of the rock, at the Athenaeum, awakened in me such an immediate sense of indigestion; also fried potatoes, baked beans, mince-pie, and pickles.
"I reckon you're mad; I reckon that boy man-handled you something scand'lous." At the words Oldham's face became still more congested. "But you look a-here," said Saleratus Bill, suddenly leaning across from his saddle and pointing a long, lean finger. "You just remember this: I took this yere job with too many strings tied to it.
She was a pretty girl, slim and well developed, and she had a fetching way with her eyes after friendly relations were established with her which was pretty hard because she seemed to feel that every one looked down on her, and was quick to take offense. "Got any saleratus?" she asked. "No," said I. "Why?"
There was a chance, of course and, in view of Saleratus Bill's shrewdness, a very strong chance that the gun-man would add to his precautions a wait and a watch at the entrance to the cove. If Bob were to wade out around the ledge, he might run fairly into his former jailer's gun.
You'll hear what I've got to say, just as long as I choose to say it." He eyed the gun-man truculently. Certainly even Bob could not have accused him of physical cowardice at that moment. Saleratus Bill stared back at him with the steady, venomous glare of a rattlesnake. Then his lips, under his straggling, sandy moustache, parted in a slow grin. "Say your say," he conceded.
Presently, looking up from the fire, he said, "There's no more saleratus, so you mustn't blame me if the biscuit is extra heavy. I told you we had none when you went to the grocery yesterday." "And I told you we hadn't a red cent to buy any with," said Stacy, who was also treasurer. "Put these two negatives together and you make the affirmative saleratus. Mix freely and bake in a hot oven."
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