"An't it please your Honour, " quoth the Peasant, "This same Desset is not so pleasant: Give me again my hollow Tree, A Crust of Bread, and Liberty. "

"Here, dearest Eve, " he exclaims, "here is food. " "Well, " answered she, with the germ of a housewife stirring within her, "we have been so busy to-day that a picked-up dinner ...

"Live like yourself," was soon my lady's word, And lo! two puddings smok'd upon the board.

"Pray take them, Sir, Enough's a Feast; Eat some, and pocket up the rest. "

A friendly swarry, consisting of a boiled leg of mutton with the usual trimmings.

And in that day did the Lord God of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth: And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killin ...

And in this mountain shall the Lord of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well re ...

And lucent syrops, tinct with cinnamon.

And she said, As the Lord thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse: and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may ...

And solid pudding against empty praise.