smelling's

Updated: June 10, 2025

If there was no tasting we should not care whether we ate brown bread or roast beef, drank water or XX ale; and in these hard times that would be no small saving." "Well, then, let me see, there's smelling." "Smelling's no use whatever. For one good smell by the river's side there be ten nasty ones; and there is everywhere, to my conviction." "Which is the next, Jacob?" said Mary, smiling archly.

Frederick Marryat - Jacob Faithful