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A certain German professor went even further than that; he chopped up a liverwort very fine into vegetable mincemeat, which he then spread thin over a saucerful of moist sand, and lo! in a few days the whole surface of the mess was covered with a perfect forest of sprouting little liverworts.
A keenly analytical nose might also have detected the presence of steak and coffee. A dispute seemed to be in progress as they entered. "You don't wish you was in Russher," said a voice. "Yus, I do wish I wos in Russher," retorted a shriveled mummy of a cabman, who was blowing patiently at a saucerful of coffee.
They would help themselves to a very small saucerful of food; and they would take of this a very small spoonful and chew and chew and chew. Mr. Fletcher said that half an hour a day was enough for the eating of the food one needed; but they, apparently, could have chewed for hours, and still been hungry.
A happy night! said Suleymân conclusively, settling himself to sleep. The usual night-light of the Syrian peasants a wick afloat upon a saucerful of oil and water burned upon the ground between us, making great shadows dance upon the walls and vaulting. The last I heard before I fell asleep was Rashîd's voice, exclaiming: 'He is a famous liar, is our wise man yonder; yet he speaks the truth!
No womanly art is a stranger to the deft fingers of cloistered nuns. Another convent industry is the preparation of the wafers used in the celebration of mass. These Dominicanesses rise at four in the morning and dine at eleven, making after that only one slight meal in the evening bread and vegetables, for instance, or a saucerful of macaroni.
And, Lizzie, don't serve so much melted butter with it as you did last time; there must have been a cupful of melted butter. And, another time, save what little scraps of vegetables there are left; they help out so at lunch " "There wasn't a saucerful of onions left last night," Lizzie would assert, "and two cobs of corn, after I'd had my dinner. You couldn't do much with those.
She put a saucerful of butter, salt, and pepper near the fire to melt, for melted butter is the shoeing-horn that helps over a meal of potatoes. Sam'l, however, saw what the hour required, and, jumping up, he seized his bonnet. "Hing the tatties higher up the joist, Lisbeth," he said, with dignity; "I'se be back in ten meenits."
She put a saucerful of butter, salt, and pepper near the fire to melt, for melted butter is the shoeing-horn that helps over a meal of potatoes. Sam'l, however, saw what the hour required, and jumping up, he seized his bonnet. "Hing the tatties higher up the joist, Lisbeth," he said with dignity; "I'se be back in ten meenits." He hurried out of the house, leaving the others looking at each other.
The tea was advertising a sufficient strength, yet she now raised the dynamics of her own portion. "I'll just spill a hooker of this here Scotch into mine," she said, and then, as she did even so: "My lands! Ain't I the cynical old Kate! And silly! Letting them boys upset me that way with that there fool song." She decanted a saucerful of the re-enforced tea and raised it to her pursed lips.
'My poor little pussies, said she, 'of course you shall have some. And she went into the dairy, followed by all the cats, and gave each one a little red saucerful. But before they drank they all rubbed themselves against her knees and purred by way of thanks. The next thing the girl had to do was to go to the storehouse, and to sift the corn through a sieve.
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