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We were also supplied liberally with lime-juice, sauerkraut, and pickles, as an antidote to scurvy, and I now recall the extreme anxiety of my medical director, Dr. Kittoe, about the scurvy, which he reported at one time as spreading and imperiling the army.
"You bet you have, little pardner. You jest come over to the house and fill up on salt pork and sauerkraut. You kin stay all summer if you want to. Hungry?" "So hungry that, if my collar were loose, it would be falling down over my feet," grinned the lad. There was rejoicing on the part of his fellows, and relief in the heart of Mr.
I was not mesel'! That last wee dram of sauerkraut got me all lit up like a picture palace! says he; 'I didn't know whether it was on ma heid or somebody else's, says he; 'I'll admit the allegation and I throw mesel' on the maircy o' the court.
I pleaded a colic, which I attributed to the imprudence of having indulged in sauerkraut at dinner. He advised me to take a little brandy; but, affecting a fresh access of pain, I bade him good- night. He hoped I should be all right on the morrow if not, he added, we can postpone our journey till the day after.
He came home to this little village in the Black Forest only about once a year. He had so much to tell and was so kind and cheerful, every one was glad to see him. "Uncle Fritz! Uncle Fritz! We are so glad you've come," exclaimed Bertha, putting her arms around his neck. "And we are going to have something that you like for dinner." "I can guess what it is. Sauerkraut and boiled pork.
Billings was trying to comprehend the circumstances above narrated; his Lordship was exhausted; the chaplain had quitted the room directly the word Sauerkraut was mentioned he knew what was coming. His Lordship looked for some time at his son; who returned the gaze with his mouth wide open. "Well," said the Count "well, sir? What are you sitting there for?
"Bet the bills smelled of sauerkraut when they reached him," grunted Cluff, striding over to the window of the drawing-room, where the informal conference was being held. "They may have had a Hochwaldian origin," admitted Sherwen. "But it would be difficult to prove." "At least the Hochwald Legation wouldn't shed any tears over a demonstration against us," said Carroll.
The boys' physique showed it first, but their physique could not be wholly charged to the school. German food was bad at best, and a diet of sauerkraut, sausage, and beer could never be good; but it was not the food alone that made their faces white and their flesh flabby.
"And such a horrid smell!" added Miss Dixon, as she stripped off her long gloves with an air of being used to dining every day at the most exclusive hotels. "I believe they are actually cooking cabbage, Pearl." "I agree with you, my dear! Isn't it awful! Can it be cabbage?" "Yah! Dot's right!" exclaimed Mr. Switzer, rubbing his hands. "Dot's cabbage, all right sauerkraut, too. Goot!"
Then one day another old beer-belly sagged in. 'Say, you got any more barrels of dot sauerkraut? he wants to know. 'That what? I asks. 'Dot sauerkraut, says he, 'like dot in the backyard. I gif you goot price for a whole barrel, says he. And here I'd give away a whole barrel! I might've got a dollar a pound for the stuff. I don't know what it might be worth to a Dutchman."
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