Meanwhile my
beans, the length of whose rows, added together, was seven miles already planted, were impatient to be hoed, for the earliest had grown considerably before the latest were in the ground; indeed they were not easily to be put off.
In a village dwelt a poor old woman, who had gathered together a dish of
beans and wanted to cook them.
Beans and bacon, cheese and bread, were all he had to offer, but he offered them freely.
While coffee was boiling, bacon frying, and flapjacks were being mixed, Daylight found time to put on a big pot of
beans. Kama came back, sat down on the edge of the spruce boughs, and in the interval of waiting, mended harness.
He ordered the best hay with plenty of oats, crushed
beans, and bran, with vetches, or rye grass, as the man might think needful.
FIRST he ate some lettuces and some French
beans; and then he ate some radishes;
In the place of the fowl a dish of haricot
beans made its appearance--an enormous dish in which some bones of mutton that at first sight one might have believed to have some meat on them pretended to show themselves.
I don't know, I'm sure, why I should have baked a pot o'
beans in the middle of the week, but they'll come in handy.
Rose watched her as she got out a great pan of
beans to look over, and wondered how it would seem to have life all work and no play.
She attempted the cold
beans, thick with grease, but gave them up, and buttered a slice of bread.
The daguerreotypist had found these
beans in a garret, over one of the seven gables, treasured up in an old chest of drawers by some horticultural Pyncheon of days gone by, who doubtless meant to sow them the next summer, but was himself first sown in Death's garden-ground.
"One day," concluded Kraft, solemnly, "there will come to Cypher's for a plate of
beans a millionaire lumberman from Wisconsin, and he will marry Milly."