Word: meating
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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...
...theologians," as they are derisively called, are having a very hard time of it. The common people are presuming enough to inspect, and perhaps reject, the doctrines which are zealously laid before them, in much the same way that they have sometimes been known to refuse very good cold meat, or clothing not more than three quarters worn out. And, as if this were not enough, the men of "culture" assail them with all the opportunities for attack which can be furnished by extensive learning and a delicate taste for sarcasm. That the "theologians" will be utterly unable to maintain...
...even if I had the courage to expostulate with my neighbors, which I confess I have not, I should probably meet with discourtesy and contempt. Now I am not particularly troubled because the man next door keeps a very large dog. If he enjoys it, and the raw meat is not too expensive, I am not concerned. But when that dog bowls in loud and dismal tones late into the night, I begin to wish him in his native kennel. I never call upon this neighbor of mine, for his animal is very fierce, and always unchained...
...embodies the fruits of his own experiments. Its object is not only to show how to live cheaply, but also how to regulate the diet so as to economize time for studying. It is with this purpose that cracker and milk is made the staple article of food, while meat is restricted to Sundays. For, according to medical advice, studying should not begin after an ordinary meal for an hour; while with this diet digestion will be far enough advanced to permit studying in fifteen minutes. But the author, in making up an estimate of the cost of living...
...where sluggish swine were turning corn to meat...