“Three pounds of thick flank—of beef.”
The butcher handed out a thin piece nearly all fat.
“No, no, that is not the part; have you not the flank with a broad piece of lean running through it?” asked Molly.
The butcher now produced a piece of meat about four inches thick, three of which were lean.
“That is it.”
It was ten cents a pound. By Molly’s direction Mrs. Lennox got also half a pound of fat bacon, and her expenditure was:—
| Lamb’s liver | .10 |
| Bacon | .07 |
| Beef | .30 |
| .47 |
“Now we have meat for two days, for about what I have always paid for one.”
“And you’ll have something for breakfast, you’ll find.”
“The great thing will be the variation of our old routine, and the money-saving; but can’t you just tell me how they should be cooked, instead of coming yourself?”