Word: milke
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...Prohibitory law. No tavern. Ask aged farmer for night's lodging in his hay-loft. Freshman fool enough not to put out his pipe. Blows smoke in farmer's face. Farmer says "nix"; backed up by bull-dog. Bivouac in pasture. Loaded bushes, complaisant cow. Supper on berries and milk. Heavy dew. One blanket, monopolized by Freshman. More brandy. Midnight attack by enraged bull. Retreat in bad order to opposite side of stone wall. Watch bull gore forty pounds of baggage, assisted by cow. Sleep up a tree. Freshman's bough breaks. Bruised ankle. Brandy instead of arnica...
...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...
...written by a high-rank man, and evidently 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...
Another case comes to mind of a friend who had strange, unaccountable ways with him, - a habit of starting to recitations without his hat, of sitting up all night and sleeping during the day, of experimenting how long it would be before an exclusive diet of crackers and milk would make him relish anything else, and last, but not least, of occasionally going to sleep by the wayside. It was mildly hinted that a connection with an institution in the neighboring town of Somerville would be more beneficial than a course at college. I am glad to say that...