The cook and housewife's manual : a practical system of modern domestic cookery and family management; containing a compendium of French cookery ... To which is added, a comprehensive treatise on domestic brewing / by Mistress Margaret Dods.

  • Johnstone, C. I. (Christian Isobel), 1781-1857.
Date:
1842
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    of green peas in a more advanced state of vegetation than any the Doctor had seen since he had crossed the Border; “ these ducklings will, however, be too old before the peas are ready. Strange stupidity, not to have them come together F*—At this instant the soft treble squeak of a pig of tender days, and then the squall of a full choir, a whole litter of pigs,—Chinese pigs, the Doctor knew by the Orientalism of the infant grunt,—struck his ear ; and, like an old battle-horse starting at the sound of the trumpet, the Doctor alight- ed, (the Ostler instinctively seizing the reins,) and, un- heeding the proffered courtesy of the Nabob, who requested him to walk in, pushed forwards.—“ Where- abouts, good woman ? whereabouts is the piggery ? How many days are they littered?”—“ Gude woman, ill woman,” quoth Mrs. Dods,—for it was Meg herself who, with a pailful of slops, was sallying towards the delicate objects of the Doctor’s solicitude, under which office she disguised the latent purpose of taking a near- er view of the new arrival at the Spa,—“ Gude wo- man, ill woman, it can make little odds to you, for they are no for your marketand Meg passed on, “ In maiden meditation fancy-free !” The Doctor, not yet wholly discomfited in his expec- tations, followed with grave and ponderous, though ea- ger steps. The appearance of the Hebe who daily ministered to their little wants, called forth a full chorus of grunters, swelling in triple thrice-confounding din ; and the matron of the stye, a full-grown porker, burst- ing the verge of the sanctuary, ran full tilt against the Doctor, and, getting between his .legs, caused him per- form a somerset, which made him free of the house ere * We never, for our own private eating, could yet find much to ad- mire in the skm-and-bone ducks of June and July.—P. T.