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No-Tail gave them each a penny, though, of course, they would have gone without that, for they always liked to help their mamma. “I want some sugar, and molasses, and bread, and butter, and some corn meal, and bacon and watercress salad,” said the mother frog, and Bully and Bawly each took a basket in which to carry the things. Then they hopped on toward the store.
The beautiful springs which feed the Coln at various intervals, where the watercress grows freely, would be of great service in forming lakes; there is so much poor marshy land even in the fertile valleys that might be utilised, with advantage and profit for the purpose of trout preserving.
"It wouldn't be a bit of use," said the Doctor. "His wife's come for him. No man stands any chance of going on a voyage when his wife hasn't seen him in fifteen years. Come along. Let's get home to tea. We didn't have any lunch, remember. And we've earned something to eat. We'll have one of those mixed meals, lunch and tea combined with watercress and ham. Nice change. Come along."
These sprigs of watercress between the sandwiches are a great improvement." "Yes, I must confess they are very good ones," assented Mr. Hastings, after trying one of each kind. "I think someone must have been giving the cook a lecture on the art of cutting them.
Along the river's edge little shreds of watercress took root and threw out sprouts and blossoms; the clean water brought forth snaky eel-grass and scum which fed a multitude of fishes; in the shadows of deep rocks the great bony-tails and Colorado River salmon lay in contented shoals, like hogs in wallows, but all the time the water grew less and less.
In flight they seem to rebound from the earth of their own elasticity, but keep a sober pace going to the spring. It is the young watercress that tempts them and the pleasures of society, for they seldom drink.
Turn the moulds out very carefully, and garnish with chopped aspic and watercress or parsley. It is, of course, understood that béchamel sauce, cold, is like blanc-mange, and that anything coated with it will be enveloped in white jelly, not in a sticky white sauce. If béchamel does not become white jelly when cold the stock of which it is made is not stiff enough.
This last is native to wet meadows and distinguished enough to have a family all to itself. Where the irrigating ditches are shallow and a little neglected, they choke quickly with watercress that multiplies about the lowest Sierra springs.
"Now, Peter, 'twould be a hijious thing a very hijious thing if, when I come a-gatherin' watercress in the marnin', I should find you a-danglin' on t' stapil, cold and stiff like t' other, or lyin' a corp wi' your throat cut; 'twould be a hijious hijious thing, Peter, but oh! 'twould mak' a fine story in the tellin'."
Watercress, the chief of Atuona, who guards the governor's house, was by the roadside. "You have drunk too much," I remarked, as I spied the rag about his head. "Not too much, but a great deal," he rejoined. "Faufau," I said further, which means that it is a bad thing. "Hana paopao" he said sadly. "It is disagreeable to work. One likes to forget many things."
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