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Updated: June 2, 2025
"You see, Missie Alice, if de ship gib a roll on one side den half de soup go out, and den when she gib a roll on de oder side de oder half go out, and you get none; and de 'taties come flying ober in de same way; den de meat jump out of de dish, and before you can stop it will be on de oder side of de cabin; and de mustard and pepper pots dey go cruising about by demselves.
Then for those whose poverty was extreme, or appetite unusually small, a little cup of tea could be supplied for one halfpenny and a good cup of tea too, not particularly strong, it is true, but with a fair average allowance of milk and sugar. "Waiter," cried Haco Barepoles in a voice that commanded instant attention. "Yessir." "Soup for two, steaks an' 'taties for ditto to foller." "Yessir."
"Faith, it wasn't worth your while on our account, for as Maister Billy Wills says, we be bruckle folk here the best o' us hardly honest sometimes, what with hard winters, and so many mouths to fill, and Goda'mighty sending his little taties so terrible small to fill 'em with. We don't think about flowers and fair faces, not we except in the shape o' cauliflowers and pigs' chaps."
I'd as soon turn king's-evidence for the few pounds you get. Why, neighbours, when every one of my taties were frosted, our Parson Thirdly were the man who gave me a sack for seed, though he hardly had one for his own use, and no money to buy 'em. If it hadn't been for him, I shouldn't hae had a tatie to put in my garden. D'ye think I'd turn after that?
'We be bruckle folk here the best o' us hardly honest sometimes, what with hard winters, and so many mouths to fill, and God-a'mighty sending his little taties so terrible small to fill 'em with. We don't think about flowers and fair faces, not we except in the shape of cauliflowers and pigs' chaps.
All the while our darling Annie, with her sleeves tucked up, and her comely figure panting, was running about with a bucket of taties mashed with lard and cabbage. Even Lizzie had left her books, and was serving out beer and cider; while mother helped plum-pudding largely on pewter-plates with the mutton.
'Plaise your worship' John called me so, ever since I returned from London, firmly believing that the King had made me a magistrate at least; though I was to keep it secret 'us zeed as how your worship were took with thinkin' of King's business, in the middle of the whate-rigg: and so uz zed, "Latt un coom to his zell, us had better zave taime, by takking our dinner"; and here us be, praise your worship, and hopps no offence with thick iron spoon full of vried taties.
"That's more nor I can tell," said Larry; "all I know about them is, that it's aisy to git into them, but uncommon hard to git out again. If my ould grandmother was here, she'd be able to tell us, I make no doubt, but she's in Erin, poor thing, 'mong the pigs and the taties." "Wot could she tell about the doldrums?" said Muggins, with a look of contempt.
"Mary!" cried Jean, as she bounced into the kitchen, where the maid, a typical "child of Erin," who worshipped the very ground Jean trod upon, stood at the sink paring her "taties" for the evening meal, "see my new camera; I'm going to take a picture with it, and I've got to go into your pot-closet to fix the plates." "A picter, is it?
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