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Cake and caudle were handed round, caudle being oatmeal gruel, with sugar, nutmeg, and white wine. In the poorest class, hot ale and "scons" were offered. Penny-weddings were by no means uncommon in my young days.
Our Grizzie's scons are good, with plenty of butter." His lordship had in the meantime taken another pull at the brandy-flask, and was growing more and more polite. "The man would be hard to please," he said, "who would not be enticed to eat by such a display of good victuals. Tea for me, before everything! How am I to pretend to swallow the stuff?" he murmured, rather than muttered, to himself.
Aggie drew the old woman's chair to the fire for him, and he sat down and ate barley-meal scons, and drank tea with them. Grannie was a little better than usual, for every disease has its inconsistencies, and pain will abate before an access; and so, with storm at hand, threaded with fiery flying serpents for her bones, she was talking more than for days previous.
The visitors had tea, oatcake, and scons, with fresh butter and jam; and Lady Joan, for all the frost and snow, had yet a new-laid egg the only one; while the laird and Cosmo ate their porridge and milk the latter very scanty at this season of the year, and tasting not a little of turnip and Grizzie, seated on a stool at some distance from the table, took her porridge with treacle. Mrs.
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