Later in Ming time, they spread their activities all over China and often monopolized the salt, silver, rice, cotton, silk or tea businesses.

In the eighteenth century, silver again continued to enter China, while silk and tea were exported.

This demand led to a strong rise in the prices of silk and tea, and benefited the merchants.

The Europeans concentrated especially on the purchase of silk and tea; but what could they import into China?

"Sha'n't I have the Presence in the buffet make you a cup of tea?

On July 4, 1862, there is a very important entry: "I made an expedition up the river to Godstow with the three Liddells; we had tea on the bank there, and did not reach Christ Church till half-past eight.

The further earnings of a year or two would supply window glass, table ware, coffee, tea and sugar, a stock of poultry, a few hogs and even perhaps a slave or two.

"You aren't" "Oh, I don't skate on waxed floors nor spill tea, nor clutch at my chauffeur in a tight place, but you know what I mean.

Nothing else was takenno tea, coffee, or indeed anything else save our bedding, guns and ammunition.

In this house we had, if not good beds, yet good tea, good bread, and wild strawberries, and were entertained with most free communications of opinion and history from our hosts.

We saw also the compass plant, and the western tea plant.

While tea was preparing a company of students came in and asked for a separate room.

About eight or nine in the morning they breakfast on tea and coffee, attended always with what they call relishes, such as salt fish, beef-steaks, sausages, broiled-fowls, ham, bacon, &c.

The manner of living I have been describing is that of people in moderate circumstances; but this taste for relishes with coffee and tea extends to all ranks of people in these states.

Soon after my arrival at this city, I went on a party of pleasure to a sort of tea-garden and tavern[Footnote: By the word tavern, in America, is meant an inn or public house of any description.

] ACT II SCENE.A handsome Apartment well lighted, Tea, Cards, &

245 7 weeks' full provision bags for 1 unit 12 2 days' provision bags for 1 unit 8 8 weeks' tea 31 6 weeks' extra butter 176 176 lbs.

Besides the flagstaff and black flag we have piled biscuit boxes, filled and empty, to act as reflectorssecured tea tins to the sledges, which are planted upright in the snow.

We covered 6 1/4 miles in direct line, then had some tea and marched another 8.

In order that political opinion may not be influenced by thoughts of the simpler bodily pleasures, no election meeting may be held in a building where any form of food or drink is habitually sold, although that building may be only a Co-operative Hall with facilities for making tea in an ante-room.

" Beau Brummell, the Prince of Dandies and the most insolent of men, was once asked by a lady if be would "take a cup of tea."

It was only an accident which led to the arrest of a well-known milliner whose afternoon-tea parties among her mannequins were attended by many Germans with business in Paris of a private character.

"Boston Tea Party shows American colonists to be hysterical and utterly incapable of self-government.

To think of tea!

I'll just see these two mistaken young fellers off the premises, and then we'll 'ave a cup o' tea while the old man minds the bar.

Max Havelaar; or, The coffee sales of the Netherlands Trading Company, by Multatuli, pseud.

And the black coffee made by Mary and served in the orchard afterward was perfection too.

After they had drunk Mary's coffee the Vicar strolled away to his study so as to leave Rowcliffe alone with Mary, and Alice strolled away heaven knew where so as to leave Mary alone with Rowcliffe.

Two ladies came out of an arbour where they had been drinking coffee, and sauntered towards the hotel.

On arriving at the trenches they would find the men they were to relieve ready to march out, to slip and slide down the hill to the railway, where they would have their morning coffee, and await the train for Meaux, where they were due at noon next daybarring delays.

When I got downstairs I found the house warm and coffee ready.

I knew partly what was in that bag, and it was every bit as heavy as the horse's fodder, for there were sandwiches, sugar, coffee, chocolate, tinned meat, peas, corn, fruit, etc.

Breakfast finished, he pulled his coffee over, lit a cigar and puffed luxuriously.

CHAPTER VII Mr. Chalk made but a poor breakfast next morning, the effort to display a feeling of proper sympathy with Mrs. Chalk, who was presiding in gloomy silence at the coffee-pot, and at the same time to maintain an air of cheerful innocence as to the cause of her behaviour, being almost beyond his powers.

To cover his discomfiture he passed his cup up for more coffee, shivering despite himself, as he noticed the elaborate care which Mrs. Chalk displayed in rinsing out the cup and filling it to the very brim.

[Illustration: "He passed his cup up for more coffee.

" They made their way to the "King of Hanover," an old inn, perched on the side of the harbour, and, mounting the stairs, entered the coffee-room, where Mr. Stobell, after hesitating for some time between the rival claims of roast beef and grilled chops, solved the difficulty by ordering both.

"Or a coffee-pot, or" The stout matron advanced upon her, and her mien was so terrible that the other, retreating to her house, slammed the door behind her and continued the discussion from a first-floor window.

"We don't drink it ourselves, except in tea or coffee; the cap'n says it ain't safe.

In point of fact, however, bottles and coffee-pots empty themselves by a finite number of decrements, each of definite amount.

The meal consisted of corn bread, bacon, potatoes and coffee.

I enjoyed all but the coffee, which had a rich brown color, but when I sipped it there was such a bitter taste I surely thought there must be quinine in it, and it made me shiver.

"Coffee," said he, but I had never seen any that tasted like that and never knew my father to buy any such coffee as that.

"Coffee," said he, but I had never seen any that tasted like that and never knew my father to buy any such coffee as that.

We had plenty of corn bread, venison and coffee, and lived well.

Before I could resume my journey snow had fallen to the depth of about six inches, which made it rather unpleasant walking, but in a few days I reached Mr. Henry's camp in "Kentuck Grove," when after comparing notes, we both began swinging our axes and piling up cordwood, cooking potatoes, bread, bacon, coffee and flapjacks ourselves, which we enjoyed with a relish.

We had some supper consisting of some very poor coffee, crackers, and a couple of eggs apiece, and had to sleep out under a tree where we knew we might find lizards, snakes, and other poisonous reptiles, and perhaps a thieving monkey might pick our pockets while we slept.

We piled our blankets in a pack upon the gentle, four-ounce donkey, and added a little tea and coffee, dried beef and bread, then started for the Yuba River, ourselves on foot.

We all fell a-talking of my grandfather's fête de grandpère of next month, and went to have some coffee.

It was a frugal one, but more comfortable than formerly, and included coffee, that subject of just pride in Creole cookery.