 | Sir Walter Scott - 2006 - 358 pages
...sodden meat. And when the table was served, the servants did sit down with us; but the upper mess, instead of porridge, had a pullet, with some prunes in the broth.' - TRAVELS. Till within this last century, the farmers, even of a respectable condition, dined with... | |
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 | Walter Scott - 188? - 970 pages
...sodden meat. And when the table was served, the servants did sit down with us ; but the upper mess, instead of porridge, had a pullet, with some prunes in the broth.'' — t Travels, p. 155.) Till within this last century, the farmers, even of a respectable condition,... | |
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... many servants to attend him, that 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 piece of sodden meat; and when the table was served, the... 
