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I've seed my grandmother go to de smoke house, and scrape up de dirt whar de meat had drapped, and take it to de house fer seasonin. You see, both armies fed off'n de white folks, and dey cleaned out dey barns and cellars and smoke houses when dey come.
"Well, then, there's Jacob Pffeffenfifer wants a young man in his delicatessen store." "Mrs. Trapes, I can slice ham and beef with any one on earth." "D' ye understand picklin' and seasonin'?" "Ah, there you have me again; I fear I don't." "Then you ain't no good to Jacob Pffeffenfifer!" "On second thoughts, I'm not wholly sorry," answered Ravenslee gravely.
But he got real happified up and excited afterwards, in talkin' over with Josiah what he see to the Conference. He stayed to supper; I wuz a seasonin' my chicken and mashed potatoes, and garnishin' 'em for the table. I wuz out to one side a little, but I listened with one side of my brain while the other wuz fixed on pepper, ketchup, parsley, etc., etc.
The celebrated Albion Female Semenary is located here, & there air over 300 young ladies in the Institushun, pretty enough to eat without seasonin or sass. The young ladies was very kind to me, volunteerin to pin my handbills onto the backs of their dresses.
Simultaneous with his last words comes the crack, quickly followed by the descent of a zopilote among the sages. "Now, Frank," he says, stooping to pick up the dead bird, while the scared flock flies farther away, "let's light a bit o' a fire, an' cook it. Thar's plenty o' sage for the stuffin', an' its own flavour'll do for seasonin' 'stead o' inyuns.
Jabez had his vanities all right, an' he used to parade 'em occasional an' got a heap o' comfort out of 'em. Dick went along seasonin' an' addin' an' stirrin' an' not seemin' to pay a mite of attention, until finally Jabez got tired of appreciatin' himself, an' sez, "Well, what do you think of this little plant anyway?"
"Salt pork it is," said the little man, looking up with a most expressive grin; "the best o' victuals when there's nothin' better. Bein' in a luxurious frame o' mind when I was up at the store, I bought a few split-pays for seasonin'; but it comes hard on a man to spind his gould on sitch things when his luck's down. You've not done much to-day, I see, by the looks of ye."
"If by Geraldine you mean Herm-Intrude," said Palmerston, sitting up in bed and grinning, "she's out in the grounds, picking " "Culling," corrected Fancy. "Her own word." "Well then culling lamb mint." "I should ha' thought sage-an'-onions was the stuffin' relied on by this establishment." "Seasonin'," corrected Palmerston. "But what have you been doin' all this time?" "My dear, don't ask!"
"I don't think you could have done that." Jess brightened visibly. "Then it doesn't taste so bad?" she said, hopefully. "There's nothing you could have left out, Jess, that would make it taste like this. It's something you've put in " Liz suddenly presented herself at the table shaking a box in her hand. "Was this what you took for seasonin' for that stuffin'?" she demanded, solemnly.
They 'll come out the kitchen door, choose their papers o' seasonin' an' bottles o' flavorin', worry you 'bout the price an' take the aidge off every dime, make up an' then onmake their minds 'bout what they want, ask if it's pure, an' when by good luck you git your cart out o' the yard, they come runnin' along the road after ye to git ye to swap a bottle o' vanilla for some spruce gum an' give 'em back the change."
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