 with great platters of porridge, each having a little piece of sodden meat ; and, when the table was served, the servants sat down with us; but the upper mess, instead of porridge, had a pullet, with some prunes in the broth : and I observed no art of...  A topographical dictionary of Scotland - Page 240by David Webster (topographer.) - 1819 - 676 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charles MacFarlane - 1861 - 852 pages
...brought in his meat, with their heads covered with blue caps, the table being more than half-furnished with great platters of porridge, each having a little...with us; but the upper mess, instead of porridge, liad a pullet, with some prunes in the broth; and I observed no art of cookery, or furniture of household... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart [novels, collected]) - 1870 - 544 pages
...brought in his meat with their heads covered with blue caps, the table being more than half furnished with great platters of porridge, each having a little...meat. And when the table was served, the servants did NOTES TO WAVERLEY. 457 sit down with us ; but the upper mess, instead of porridge, had a pullet,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Scotland - 1874 - 576 pages
...brought in his meat with their heads covered with blue caps, the table being more than half furnished with great platters of porridge, each having a little...sodden meat And when the table was served, the servants did sit down with us; but the upper mess [those sitting above the salt-vat], instead of porridge, had... | |
 | James Thomson - Dundee (Scotland) - 1874 - 534 pages
...with us ; but tho uppur mess [those sitting above the salt-vat], instead of porridge, had a juillet, with some prunes in the broth. And I observed no art of cookery or furniture of household stuif, but rather rude neglect of both, though myself and companion, sent from the governor... | |
 | Chambers's journal - 1874 - 850 pages
...brought in the meat with their heads covered with blue caps ; the table being more than halffurnished with great platters of porridge, each having a little piece of 'sodden' meat. When the table was served, the servants also sat down at it ; but the upper mess, instead of porridge,... | |
 | James Grant - 1880 - 436 pages
...bonnets), the table being more than half furnished with great platters of porridge, each having (in them) a little piece of sodden meat; and when the table...And I observed no art 'of cookery, or furniture of household stuff, but rather a rude neglect of both, though myself and my companion, sent from the Governor... | |
 | Andrew Macgeorge - Glasgow (Scotland) - 1880 - 404 pages
...brought in his meat with " their heads covered with blue caps, the table being more than half fur" nished with great platters of porridge, each having a little..." meat. And when the table was served the servants did sit down with " us, but the upper mess [above the salt] instead of porridge had a " pullet with... | |
 | Andrew Macgeorge - Glasgow (Scotland) - 1880 - 396 pages
...brought in his meat with " their heads covered with blue caps, the table being more than half fur" nished with great platters of porridge, each having a little..." meat. And when the table was served the servants did sit down with " us, but the upper mess [above the salt] instead of porridge had a " pullet with... | |
 | Walter Scott - Jacobite Rebellion, 1745-1746 - 1880 - 442 pages
...brought in his meat with their heads covered with blue caps, the latile being more than half furnished with great platters of porridge, each having a little...of sodden meat. And when the table was served, the sen-ants did sit down with us ; but the upper mess, instead of porridge, had a pullet, with some prunes... | |
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