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He come fum Vajinny, but my mammy was borned an raised in Wilmington. My name was Josephine Anderson fore I married Willie Jones. I had two half-brothers youngern me, John Henry an Ed, an a half-sister, Elsie. De boys had to mind de calves an sheeps, an Elsie nursed de missus' baby. I done de cookin, mosly, an helped my mammy spin.
Hey, hey? Ugglees-tone. Ma foi, you Monsieur Jonas Ugglees-tone?" "No, sir; I am his son," said Bigley. "What say, sare, you Monsieur Jonas Ugglees-tone, you b'long?" "Yes, sir; I belong to him. Will you give us something to eat?" "Aha! You Engleesh boys, big garcon, always hungries. Vais; come aboard my sheeps. Not like your papa oh, no. I know him mosh, very mosh.
"Don't talk to me about being quiet, Benjamin Younker, away out here in the woods, a captive to such imps an them thar, with our house all burnt to nothing like, and our cows and sheeps and hosses destructed, and " Here the speech of the good woman was suddenly cut short by the whizzing of a tomahawk past her head, which slightly grazed her cheek, and lodged in the tree a few feet beyond.
When it is strong enough relish'd, then strain it off, and take a little of it, and mix it with Butter to thicken it, or Cream would do better, about half a Pint: pour this over the Sheeps Trotters with a few Capers, and serve it up with Slices of Lemons. A brown Fricassee of Sheeps Trotters.
Every Bavarian regiment is being sent into it, and it's a swindle." It was in no cheerful mood that men went away to the Somme battlefields. Those battalions of gray-clad men entrained without any of the old enthusiasm with which they had gone to earlier battles. Their gloom was noticed by the officers. "Sing, you sheeps' heads, sing!" they shouted. They were compelled to sing, by order.
Jacob," continued Tom, to me apart, "do look how the old gentleman is funking Mary, and casting sheeps' eyes at her through the smoke." "He appears as if he were inclined to board her in the smoke," replied I. "Yes, and she to make no fight of it, but surrender immediately," said Tom.
"Never; and I dread nothing so much as being quartered there. Just imagine the trouble it would be to go over the pedigree of every Keith I met, and to dine with them all upon haggis and sheeps' head!" "There's no place I want to sea as much as Scotland," said Rachel. "Oh, yes! young ladies always do." "It is not for a young lady reason," said Rachel, bluntly.
But she soon found that it was not by any means all a bed of roses; for there was a great deal of business to be done by the head of a house not only looking after the internal discipline of the convent, but also superintending money matters and giving orders to the bailiffs on her estates, and seeing that the farms were paying well, and the tithes coming in to the churches which belonged to the nunnery, and that the Italian merchants who came to buy the wool off her sheeps' backs gave a good price for it.
The coverings for the feet are either enormous shoes of coarsely woven white sheeps' wool, ornamented with three tassels, or short, very wide boots of red or yellow leather, reaching only just above the ankle and armed with large plates an inch thick. The head-dress is a turban.
They are so poor as to have no iron, or so very little that a family which has an axe guards it like a treasure. Their substitute for a plough has been already described as made of two crooked branches of a tree, with a sharp point at one end and a round ball at the other, which they force into the ground by means of their breast, protected by a sheeps skin during this rude operation of tillage.
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