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Updated: May 28, 2025
The time for changing horses by my watch was not more than one minute before you knew one stage was passed another was commenced; they gave us 5 minutes to eat our breakfast an operation something like that of ducks in a platter, the dish consisting of coffee and milk with rolls sopped in it. The roads are incomparable better than ours and nearly if not quite as good as the Irish.
"Give him water and I will watch that none spy you at the deed. Hasten!" The child opened his water-bottle and held it toward the lips of the man. Pinioned hands, stiffened shoulders and weakened muscles made the effort to drink difficult. Pulling his kerchief from his neck, the child sopped it with water and held it to the dry lips.
Well, after a while when the tide turned I started paddling down. A little water came through a couple of deep cracks, but not much and I sopped it up with my hat. And oh, you would have chucked a couple of chuckles if you'd seen me guiding my Indian bark with a bunch of reeds. Honest, they looked like, a street sweeper's broom.
Bread slices sopped in saffron, with fish, garnished with small crabs, to be chewed up, shell and all. Artichokes, raw, with oil and vinegar. Oranges with pepper and salt. On the table were glass jugs with tar-water, and I observed that over half those present drank their wine diluted with this tar-water. One day in summer I was at table-d'hote in France when I saw a very fine melon on the table.
Coming to a comparatively level stretch we sank into a silently reflective and forgetful mood, while the rain-drops dribbled down our noses, sopped from our mackintoshes to our saddles, whence they re-ascended, through the capillary influence of garments, to our necks, and soon equalised our humidity. "Look out!" shouted Edwards, suddenly.
For in order to enjoy the unlawful thing in a lawful way, and not to have his throat subject to the command of another, he sopped morsels of bread in liquor, and fed on the pieces thus soaked with drink; tasting slowly, so as to prolong the desired debauch, and attaining, though in no unlawful manner, the forbidden measure of satiety.
I thought of everything good to eat I had ever heard of. I went away back to my kidhood and remembered the hot biscuit sopped in sorghum and bacon gravy with partiality and respect.
"It was a' poison," he used to say, "in London. Bread full o' alum and bones, and sic filth meat over-driven till it was a' braxy water sopped wi' dead men's juice. Naething was safe but gude Scots parrich and Athol brose." He carried his water-horror so far as to walk some quarter of a mile every morning to fill his kettle at a favourite pump.
It came on fitfully, but not so violently, several times on Thursday, and began severer threats toward night; but I took between sixty and seventy drops of laudanum, and sopped the Cerberus just as his mouth began to open.
"You see," he said, "we sit us together, and talk of eating" he prided himself on his use of English, and never used his native tongue to help him out, except in moments of great excitement. "It is immediately after breakfast. Yes! I am full of milk-coffee sopped with bread, and you of bacon with eggs and marmalade. We say, what shall we give to our custom for its dinner and its luncheon?
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