Word: frugalities
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...RANDALL,Sec. C. T. Co.OUR friend Skiapous, on his late pedestrian tour through the White Mountains, stopped at a wayside inn for a frugal meal, - something "light" before retiring. Having toyed with three beefsteaks, two mutton-chops, fried potatoes, two cups of tea, two glasses of milk, some cold meat, an omelet, hot biscuits innumerable, a mound of griddle-cakes, and the usual "fixins," he called for four toothpicks, and was about to leave the table; but the polite head-waiter begged him to remain because they had got a yoke of oxen barbecuing for him in the back-yard...
...much lessened. An hour and a half is whiled away in conversation carried on in German, in the use of which language some have attained remarkable proficiency for so short a time. Since everything connected with this club is to be distinctly German, the collations prepared are of a frugal character, and will probably be entirely dispensed with after the first of May. The object of the society is praiseworthy, and it is looked upon by the Professors of Modern Languages connected with the College as a very useful organization...