31.Irish Flummery.

To make ALMOND FLUMMERY.

To make CALF'S FOOT FLUMMERY.

Green Codlings, Apricock Custard, Sweetmeat Tarts, preserv'd Damsins, or Flummery.

Almond Custards, Flummery, Cheese-Cakes, and stew'd Apples.

Cheese Cakes and Flummery, preserved Apricocks, preserved Quinces.

another Way Flummery do + Biskets Amblet of Cockles, do.

in Eggs to make minc'd Pies of to make Pie of Jelly, to make Flummery, do.

DUTCH FLUMMERY. 1426.

" "Flummery!" observed the cynic, "I had a selfish motive: I wished to appear generousI wished to be praisedI wished to attach you to my service, in order to employ you, when the time came, in some rascally scheme.

But the President's intercourse with crowned heads, and his intimacy with arrogant general officers, coupled with all the flummery of the Protocole, all the pomp and display observed whenever he stirred from the Palace of the Elysee, had virtually turned his head.

nonsense, utter nonsense, gibberish; jargon, jabber, mere words, hocus-pocus, fustian, rant, bombast, balderdash, palaver, flummery, verbiage, babble, baverdage, baragouin^, platitude, niaiserie^; inanity; flap-doodle; rigmarole, rodomontade; truism; nugae canorae [Lat.]; twaddle, twattle, fudge, trash, garbage, humbug; poppy-cock

incense, honeyed words, flummery; bunkum, buncombe; blarney, placebo, butter; soft soap, soft sawder^; rose water.

Then they have enclosed theirs with a light, elegant fence, à la Parigina, as though the austere forms of Egypt were compatible with the decorative flummery of the boulevards.

A nervous subaltern recently appeared before his Adjutant and called the Wurzel-Flummery Electro-Dynamical Apparatus, Mark II., "this sky-plotter stunt."

It was not, however, the flummery of my new acquaintance, who, I need hardly say, was neither more nor less than a sergeant in coloured clothes, assumed, I suppose, for the purpose of taking young fellows like myself unawares,I say it was not his balderdash, which, young and raw as I was, I fully perceived, that reconciled me to the notion of listing.

" In the meantime, up jumps a public instructor, Flummery Flam, who ascribes all the debt and distress to "a slight over-trading," chatters about demand, supply, rent, wages, profit, and, as a temporary relief, suggests "emigration."

"Flummery-Flammism triumphs, and every person, from the managers down to the chalk-chewing mechanics, attend lectures on that enlightening science.

This flummery is too much; but every body with whom Popanilla had conversed while in Vraibleusia is subpoenaed against him: the judge is about to sum up, when a trumpet sounds, and a government messenger presents a scroll, and informs him, that a remarkably clever young man, recently appointed one of the managers, had last night consolidated all the edicts into a single act.

In "The Funeral" the author impaled, with many a merciless slash of the pen, the hypocrisy and vulgar flummery that characterised the whole gruesome ceremony of conducting to its earthly resting-place the body of a well-to-do sinner.

" "Ay, sir, there was some flummery like that, Captain," said Turnbull; "for folk will be gabbin'.

No. 3 Graham mush with dates Plum porridge Graham apple mush Granola mush Granola fruit mush Granola peach mush Bran jelly The oat, description of Oatmeal Brose Budrum Flummery Preparation and cooking of oats Recipes: Oatmeal mush Oatmeal fruit mush Oatmeal blancmange Oatmeal Blancmange

A preparation called sowens, or flummery, made by macerating the husks of the oats in water from twenty-four to thirty-six hours, until the mixture ferments, then boiling down to the consistency of gruel, is a popular article of food among the Scotch and Welsh peasantry.

I am sorry he will be disappointed, for he is a fellow quite free from the flummery of his profession.

In the whole great universe of shammery and flummery there is no such idea floating.