He then ordered two bottles of
cider, and seemed to take as little notice of our host as our host did of him.
Abner himself avowed his complete innocence, and told the neighbors how a red-haired man with a hare lip and a pepper-and- salt suit of clothes had called him up one morning about daylight and offered to swap him a good sleigh for an old
cider press he had layin' out in the dooryard.
"It is just as if you would reproach me, monseigneur, for going to the Rue Planche Milbray, to fetch, myself, the
cider M.
"But the grandest thing of all was, I fetched the King a glass of
cider!"
He treated her to
cider and cake, bought her a silk shawl, and then, thinking she had guessed his purpose, offered to see her home.
"Saddle of mutton," said he after profound reflection: "and
cider to drink.
He had partaken of the homely abundance of their tables, had quaffed the far-famed Shaker
cider, and had joined in the sacred dance, every step of which is believed to alienate the enthusiast from earth, and bear him onward to heavenly purity and bliss.
"Why--Tess!--my chil'--I thought you was married!--married really and truly this time--we sent the
cider "
I was walking along a public path that threads through a private Devonshire orchard and seems to point towards Devonshire
cider, when I came suddenly upon just such a place as the path suggested.
I saw at Low's Harbour the Chilotans making chichi, or
cider, with this fruit: so true is it, as Humboldt remarks, that almost everywhere man finds means of preparing some kind of beverage from the vegetable kingdom.
There are fifty-seven apple-evaporating furnaces, to say nothing of the apple canneries and
cider and vinegar factories.
He felt like a blow on his chest, but said only: "Go, draw me some
cider. I am thirsty!"