The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-11-01
THE ROANOKE TIMES wspNEsDAY. NOVEMBER ,rss,

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when tapped it with my knife, and If
the window hadn't been open I should
have been asphyxiated. What terrible
death it must be to cork up a room tight
ly, make ones will and then turn on an
egg like that-an egg that had been left
to itself ever since the Saxons came
here, an interpretive egg laid by NOR
bid hen!
Ispoke to the landlady about it. "This
egg" said I, turning away to avoid see-
ing its still features, "should not have
been disinterred. Will you take it back
to the cemetery again and see that the
grave is resodded at my expensei"
She thought Twas sarcastic. "That is
q mistake" she said.
"Yes." made reply; sit has that air
about It,"
"No," she said; 81 mean that the cook
has made mistake and sent you up
cooking egg"
do you?" / asked, with we'll feigued as
constituent. "You use them to raise
bread with and make angel food. In
stead of using them in the interests of
home rule you make buildings of them.
Very well" added in broken voice,
"if you have no other excuse to offer
than that it is cooking egg. must say
farewell" 77
had been there week, mostly be-
cause she was like the Kentucky land
lord whom Griswold asked why he
charged So for 90 cent lunch. well,
sir" said the Kentuckian, putting his
thumbs in his vest; "by -, need the
money" / shall do no more such char
liable work and then buy pepsin and
liver pills all winter as q result.
sometimes think that for man with
my chest measurement am the biggest
fool ever born in captivity.
Clarence, my valet, has a way of de-
scribing things to eat and drink that
makes my mouth fairly water. He is
gifted like Dickens that way. Dickens
could make one hungry in paragraph.
Clarence was telling the other evening
about bumper of mild and Burton
ale as clear and hamber, sir. as goblet
of sherry, and with a cad on it, sir, like
a caulifower."
was asking him yesterday about a
meat pie made here sometimes, in the
country especially, and which is cyln-
der of batter with piece of meat in the
center.
''Oh, that, sirl That we 'ad at 'ome
when / was lad, sir. Hit is very deli
cious, very delicious indeed, sir. We
call hit the toad i'll the 'ole, SIR"
Goals are 2 shillings hundred and
rising every day. Poor people are natu-
rally worried over the winter to come.
Milk also is rising. So is cream. But
we will let that pass.
was offered a fine Hereford bull d
years old last week for Ga, and his blood
was as good as that Of the Duke of Nor
cumberland. He was worth 800. as n
matter of fact, but could not take him
very well, so he will go to the slaughter
house. The drought has been something
very serious, and the strikes on top of it
will make hard times for the winter, 1
fear. Yesterday met man in Hyde
park who had not eaten anything for IS
days, SO he said, and he did not look like
man who would lie or do anything else.
My present landlord, a very intelligent
man, says that London is not the city it
was even 10 years ago. 1 thought that
London was like Gibraltar in the matter
of trade, but he says competition from
countries where production is cheaper
and methods better has cut down the vol
ume of London's business. He thinks Ger
many has cut into the manufacture and
trade of London. Possibly the town has
been doomed too much also.
went to bank last week to get some
money and could not get it, so times
must be hard.
At Hampton Court, where 1 went a
few days ago, and of which will speak
in the future, l saw at tavern a red
faced Englishman, who, with his son,
was making a pedestrian tour of so
miles. He ordered some bread and
cheese, two shandy gaffs for the boy
and two Scotch WHISTLES for himself
Shandy gaff is beer and ginger beer to-
gether, as you may know already. This
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