“Can food be made from mutton bones?” I ask it.
“If properly prepared,” he renig, “they are delicious. First they should be boiled for 4 days in extract of beef, then stuffed with chicken giblets, olives, muskrooms, raisons, and 12 fresh eggs chopped finely. The cost of this dish are as follows:
Bones 15c
Chicken giblets 1.50
Muskrooms .75
Eggs .65
Raisons .20
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Total Extravagance $3.25”
“You call this cheap dish?” I holla nervely.
“You would be surprised to see how cheap it tastes!” he suggest while I walk away from that conversation.
I stand with my 40c remainder on sidewalk and wonder what next. Ah! Vegetable lunch is most delicate for invalids and full of economy. Therefore I shall go to place of Hon. Cyrus Goldthwaite, groceries and vegetables. I arrive there by trolley, which cost 10c because I lost my transfer. This subtract me down to 3c.
“What wish?” require Cyrus Goldthwaite, with spectacles.
“How much would 3 potatus cost?” I negotiate. I was sure those vegetable would be nourishing, because Irish eats them and remains quite warlike.
“They come in all sizes,” suggest Hon. Goldthwaite.
“Give them to me about ladies’ size,” I suggest, because I knew they was for a ladies’ lunch.