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Updated: April 30, 2025
"Lads," said the farmer, "I've been spared to hear the whisper of another spring." "God be thanked!" said the hind, "for seasonable weather at last. Every man to his trencher! the broth is in the bowls." Out on the marsh the reeds beat in the wind.
This very morning, then, you have had him roasted upon the trencher, and indeed I had accounted him excellently well bestowed; but now, seeing that you would fain have had him on other wise, it is so great a grief to me that I cannot oblige you therein that methinketh I shall never forgive myself therefor. So saying, in witness of this, he let cast before her the falcon's feathers and feet and beak.
It was while he traversed those ninety feet that Trencher summed up the contingencies that hedged him in and reached his conclusion. In front of the Clarenden against the curbing stood a short line of waiting motor vehicles. With one exception they were taxicabs.
The meeting in the darkened place, just where the portico at the side entrance of the old Jollity Theatre, extending out across the sidewalk, made a patch of obscurity in the half-lit street, had been a meeting by chance so far as Trencher was concerned. He had not been looking for Sonntag; hadn't wanted to see Sonntag.
"Except the milk, and he gave me my ha'porth through the winder." "Hurrah!" said Bywater, throwing up his trencher. "It's a clear case of dreams. You dreamt you had a second pair of keys, Ketch, and couldn't get rid of the impression on awaking. Mr. Ketch, D.H., Dreamer-in-chief to Helstonleigh!" Bywater commenced an aggravating dance. Ketch was aggravated sufficiently without it.
The table was already spread, and Nancy was at that very moment giving an extra polish to the tankard before placing it beside the Captain's trencher. The spiced drink to fill it was already mulling beside the fire with a huge kettle of vegetables steaming beside it. The closet door was open, giving a tantalizing glimpse of glories to come.
When the captain was at home, he carved the bird with his hunting knife, and one such fowl would fill the largest trencher bowl we had among us.
Mary's courtesy was unfailing, and though she felt all a Frenchwoman's disgust at the roast-beef of old England, she said, "We are too close companions not to eat together, and I fear she will be the best trencher comrade, for, sir, I am a woman sick and sorrowful, and have little stomach for meat."
They came to a new house called Hoarstones, where there were three score or more people, and horses of several colors, and a fire with meat roasting. They had flesh and bread upon a trencher and they drank from glasses. After the first taste the boy "refused and would have noe more, and said it was nought." There were other refreshments at the feast.
"My beauty," says he, as we sat at supper, "silver and Wedgwood better become you than pewter and a trencher." "And I reckon a rope would sit better on your neck than a ruff," retorted Polly Ann, while the company shouted with laughter. But he was not the kind to become discomfited. "I'd give a guinea to see you in silk. But I vow your hair looks better as it is."
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