The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-05-09

Why, you grub minee meat three times a day; is not mince meat good grub?
 ''Oui, oui; mince meat goote, verri goote when ga mince meat, but no goote when ga scare damn mince tater."
 Packets were fast and slow, as We have now express and slow trains. One could take a ''Lead-heeler'' and jog alone comfortably, or9ns could take a Wave Thwackeh' and storm along like autos. Jugernaut's racing and smashing everything smaller in it's ea- gerness to ''get there" with this noted exception: they did not poison the pure air of heaven by leaving behind them the venomous odors of the bottomless pit. %
 With skunk carts, as with brute force, the weaker must "fend off," right has the right of way with them. 1 Providence was quite an institution with our old time folk, bowed down with all our mean affairs; he must have l been as round-shouldered as post man at Christmas.
 Newspaper Notice.--The packet Su- san sails on such day, wind and weather permitting, barring a visita- ton of Providence.
 In case of delay during the trip from stress of weather passengers (.'having a date') were set ashore with the priv ilege of walking or getting on as good Providence might provide. No danger from the hollow-eyed wolf in those days, if one helped out Providence with
 a scoop-net and blunderbust, for the water teemed with fish and the surface
 was covered with ducks. geese and 1 swan. The Tankard and Trencher was l looked upon as a direct gift of Proyi dence, 50 both were blessed with un. i covered head and open mouth. A trip to Gotham in old times was an epoch not to be forgotten; it often required as
 much time as the present-day trip to
 Europe. with many thrilling experi- , ences by land and water.
 When noised abroad that one was go- ing to York" the aunt and cousins
 were at the dock; such kissing of eye
 bro@s and parting hugs One old lady I brought down the house cat in a bag l caring her grandchild would be home
 sick on the trip and need some home
 solace In fact it was the outing Of
 ones life for those who "outed" at all 2 Our old-time mothers had home and
 children that required more innings than outings; home being thought by our grand danes quite good enough foI
 .tour kind of folk" In after years the I traveller often referred with great gustc l to his trip to York as the event of his @t life, the packet-deck being like the fo, .l rum of old. Such tales as were told oi
 the times of old; such jokes as were
 cracked Chit lem har0 with many g j whack; such songs as were sung, moi I the ragtail and bobtag of the footlights 1 unded the tarpowlan night and day \ still finger on the ear. But there wa la limit to packet law that alteretf
 not that no tales should be told o A town folk, as no one could tell when oi l upon whose tender toes the hot shot
 might drop. For aye accursed in min
 strel rhyme was he who bawled mic
 song and wine" The packet cook:
 were the best of their craft afioat O "
 and clam berdgin choWders, (pouret
 boiling on to red-hot stones gave it {
 relish and a smack not known to tht
 chowders of these days.) Eseallol x slap jacks and spiced eel-pies, witt tipsy- Tom smackets, pickled razors art
 clam grunt, with sandphire sauce; tht
 table grooming under the weight of thu
 feast, making the off shore" dinner o our packets a 'smacket'' now lost t
 sight, but still to memory dear
 Il Then those hot Colonel Mosley's nigh caps, mulled Bakewell's ale and ho morning calls and -'.Cook- too -Doodl,
 Doos,' to keep off Sea -Quams and Fe yer Na-ger.o
 No ice water; the Samaritan with it
 oakum jacket was cool enough for tn,
 rum of our daddies. No wonder tn, passengers came up the dock sea stuffed, sea-legged and seaed-over.n
 How little the people of the presen
 day know of the old-time comfort Q i. the inner man who are obliged to sub sist upon the abon1inable mixtures ant conglomerations of our imported seal
 ions, who call themselves cooks, dis
 guising dishes with outlandish jargon
 the contents no one would eat if writ
 ten in good English. Nature sends u good food, but who, for Lords sake tel Ius, sends us (so-called) cooks? Thi . factotum of the packet galley was O
 Guinea birth, Spon-shur Bust-tus x whose sir name was Abba Elijah. Hi.
 Christian name was given him in thil ..I wise:
 In taking an after-dinner smoke soint of his wool, which was very abundant , protruded through a crack in the sid, 1, lof the galley. An abominable joke ltouched it off; instantly his entire heat
 was ablaze.
 } Some friendly hand soused him witt . a bucket of water, but not until hi 7 head was as bald as his much insultet , Biblical namesake. Unconscious of am trick, his explanation was, that havin, 5 headache, he had rubbed some cook . ing rum upon his forehead, and it mus : have gone off by Spon-shus Bust-tus His choWder had a wonderful "takin , in' quality, peculiar pungent f1avou t and from the fact that he often went t 5 the peat marsh of the eastern shore, !; was surmised that he f1avoured it wit ; roots, perhaps calamus, said to be use t by his man-eating father to kill tn