About fifty sat down to eat a quantity of what may be termed thick porridge that would have been ample allowance for a hundred ordinary men.

Rice usually agrees well; fresh fish, sheep's head, tongue, chicken livers, milk or batter puddings are also suitable; and occasionally give oatmeal porridge, alternated with a little scraped raw meat as an especial favour.

The main surface was a rough sort of thing, and, on regarding it closely, it looked as if it was made of frozen porridge, being slightly rough, and of a grey-brown colour.

They take the place of white bread, and white flour biscuits, of expensive dairy butter, of sloppy indigestible porridge, and so on.

And Annie drank a little porridge and told Hannah she was very glad indeed.

Mrs. Morris could not afford to give to the dogs good meat that she had gotten for her children, so she used to get the butcher to send her liver, and bones, and tough meat, and Mary cooked them, and made soup and broth, and mixed porridge with them for us.

They take the place of white bread, and white flour biscuits, of expensive dairy butter, of sloppy indigestible porridge, and so on.

"Then I'll catch it," I said, laughing at his discomfiture, for I knew he loathed stirring porridge.

I may add that one must be careful to take a much smaller quantity of this firm, super-cooked porridge, as it contains so much more nutriment in proportion to its bulk.

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If the hay was thrown so high in the rack that they could not pluck a single straw without stretching up for it, why, the hay was generally worth stretching for, and was, perhaps, quite as healthful as the sweet and easily digested nursery porridge which some people adopt as exclusive diet for their darlings nowadays.

I may add that one must be careful to take a much smaller quantity of this firm, super-cooked porridge, as it contains so much more nutriment in proportion to its bulk.

The trench bottom where they walked was anything from ankle- to knee-deep in evil-looking watery mud of the consistency of very thin porridge.

The second course was cold salt fish or boiled beans and mushrooms, and the third was dry maize-meal porridge.

Now for the method by which many, who have long foresworn porridge, have become able again to relish it, and benefit by it.