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.

So we had meat only once a day, and bread and milk, porridge, or dog biscuits, for our other meals.

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.

Nora had come with the milk, left it, eaten the rest of the porridge, and gone away again without waiting for a word with any one.

"In the time of the great King Francis I.," says Noël du Fail, in his "Contes d'Eutrapel," "in many places the saucepan was put on to the table, on which there was only one other large dish, of beef, mutton, veal, and bacon, garnished with a large bunch of cooked herbs, the whole of which mixture composed a porridge, and a real restorer and elixir of life.

In the evening there was generally some meeting to go to, but after his return, when evening worship and the invariable supper of porridge and milk were over, he always went back to his study, and its lights were seldom put out until long past midnight.

Yet I ought not, even in a distant land, to fling an idle gibe against a gentleman of whom I really know nothing, except that the people under his charge bear all possible tokens of being tended and cared for as sedulously as if each of them sat by a warm fireside of his own, with a daughter bustling round the hearth to make ready his porridge and his titbits.

Into these bowls, Mrs. Squeers poured a brown composition, which was called porridge.

A minute wedge of brown bread was inserted in each bowl, and when they had eaten their porridge by means of it, the boys ate the bread itself, and had finished their breakfast; whereupon Mr. Squeers said in a solemn voice, "For what we have received, may the Lord make us truly thankful!"and went away to his own.

After eating his share of porridge, and having further disposed of a slice of bread and butter, allotted to him in virtue of his office, Nicholas sat himself down, to wait for school-time.

The boy's no fool, As good a heart as hers, but somewhat given To hunt the nearest butterfly, and light The fire of fancy without hanging o'er it The porridge-pot of practice.

Fresh Fruit Wheat Porridge Gravy Toast Graham Puffs Hoe Cake Toasted Wafers Lemon Apples Stewed Fruit DINNER Pea and Tomato Soup Steamed Potato Stewed Corn Macaroni Baked with Granola Graham Grits Whole-Wheat Bread Bean Gems

Fresh Fruit Plum Porridge Prune Toast Toasted Rolls Whole-Wheat Bread Citron Apples Stewed Fruit DINNER Tomato and Vermicelli Soup Beet Hash Mashed Peas Macaroni with Kornlet Orange Rice Whole-Wheat Bread Toasted Wafers Currant Puffs Stewed Fruit Apple Sago

Fresh Fruit Plum Porridge Dry Toast with Hot Cream Graham Bread Toasted Wafers Corn Puffs Creamed Potatoes

Fresh Fruit Oatmeal Porridge with Croutons Blueberry Toast Macaroni with Cream Sauce Toasted Rolls Whole-Wheat Puffs Steamed Figs

Fresh Fruit Oatmeal Porridge Berry Toast Macaroni with Cream Sauce Graham Crisps Hominy Gems

Fresh Fruit Plum Porridge Prune Toast Breakfast Rolls Whole-Wheat Puffs Graham Crackers Lettuce Stewed Fruit DINNER Bean and Tomato Soup Mashed Potatoes Stewed Split Peas Radishes Asparagus with Cream Sauce Rolled Wheat Whole-Wheat Bread Currant Puffs Toasted Wafers Stewed Fruit Fresh Fruit FOURTH DAY

Fresh Fruit Cracked Wheat Porridge with Croutons Macaroni with

Fresh Fruit Plum Porridge Snowflake Toast Vienna Bread Crusts Toasted Wafers Lettuce Stewed or Fresh Berries DINNER Potato and Sago Soup Stewed Lima Beans Radishes Boiled Macaroni Hominy Cream Rolls Graham Bread

Fresh Fruit Plum Porridge Cream Toast Cottage Cheese Whole-Wheat Puffs Toasted Wafers Graham Bread Stewed Fruit DINNER Pea and Tomato Soup Mashed Potato Stewed Celery Corn Pudding Rolled Wheat Graham Puffs Toasted Wafers Buns

Fresh Fruit Oatmeal Porridge Dry Toast with Hot Cream Rye Bread Toasted Wafers Graham Puffs Baked Sour Apples

I sat down on the door-step to eat my porridge and think of what lay before me and how best to accomplish it.

"Myself," he says, "was at a knight's house, who had 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 tables were served, the servants did sit down with us; but the upper mess, instead of porridge, had a pullet with some prunes in the broth.

"Myself," he says, "was at a knight's house, who had 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 tables were served, the servants did sit down with us; but the upper mess, instead of porridge, had a pullet with some prunes in the broth.

She is good natered to a fault, you know you can kill yourself on milk porridge, and though folks don't philosophize on it you can be too good to be comfortable.