It Blows, It Snows

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94

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150 g

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: tringent to the original, I was begged of, in the most abject terms, by the cook, not to form too hasty an opinion as to the merits of his kettle, as it was but the first day's boiling, and of course watery; but, taking it for granted, that the representations of this letter are not of such a calumniating nature as to produce any differences of real consequence between this profound progenitor of high living and myself, should they ever happen to be unintentionally placed before his notice, I do positively assert, that the contents of his kettle were, even on the first day rich, and that to such a degree, that were it not that I felt excessively hungry at the time, and determined to dine at all risks, I am positive I could not have attempted on more than half a dozen spoonful] s at the most, of their saturating qualities. It was, indeed, a valuable preparation, which might, without offering any injustice to the claims of two shillings or half-a- crown, have become bottled and vended out as the concentrated essence of higgledy-piggledy, having previously taken its place beside mullagatawny and ox-tail in the bow window of a victualty department, without entitling the innate properties of these two worshipfulls, in the slightest degree, to the privilege of becoming sarcastic, at the expense of this latest introduction amongst the most fashionable varieties of the day. The snow which commenced falling in immense quantities, immediately after our arrival, continued steady so during the remainder of the night, so that our Boss, (as the Overseer of any important work is ludicrously termed in this country), who predicted that little good could be done next morning in the way of chopping or getting out lumber, offered to accompany us through the woods during the day, and conduct us to ...

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