He puts as many plums in his pudding as my grandmother used to do; and, then his emerging from Hell's horrors into light, and treading on pure flats of this earthfor twenty-three books together!

Your representative makes a speech, the exordium of which is Patriotism, the peroration of which is Star-Spangled Banner, and the central plum of which is your coal mine or iron mill.

Drain the plums from the first syrup; put them into the fresh syrup, and simmer them very gently until they are clear; lift them out singly into pots, pour the syrup over, and when cold, cover down to exclude the air.

When it is clear, put in the plums with the port wine, lemon-juice, and rind, and simmer very gently for 1-1/2 hour.

Their idea was to wait until he got well on his sermon and then begin to interrupt him and ask questions, and finally to get a blanket and toss him up a few times for luck, and then chase him out and have the circus bulldog, that chews the clown's pants, catch the minister's coat tail and just scare him plum to death.

Arrange the plums on a glass dish, take out the lemon-rind, pour the syrup over the plums, and, when cold, they will be ready for table.

Best plums for preserving.

The two boys found Miss Eleanor making cake, and the conference began by Diggory's having his ears boxed for picking plums out of the dough.

With amusing politeness, the governor of the city at last sent her some confectionery,agreeing with John Keats, who held that young women were beings fitter to be presented with sugar-plums than with one's time.

While this was heating, he squeezed the sour grapes and plums into what Joe called a "mush," mixed it with a spoonful of sugar, and emptied it into the pot.

When a little girl is hoping to take a plum off a dish, and finds that she can't have that one, because it's bad or unripe, what does she do?

what appetites they had, yet would waste nothing, but picked every one his bone properly clean (which did satisfy me nothing was amiss with our geese), and great cheering when the puddings and flapdragons came in all aflame, and all as merry as grigsflinging of lighted plums at each other, but most mannerly not to fling any at Moll or us.

"How did it happen?" "The plug crossed his feet in the dip yonder, and rolled plum over me.

The woods here are full of wild plum-trees, the delicate white blossoms of which twinkle among the evergreen copses, and besides illuminating them with a faint starlight, suggest to my mind a possible liqueur like kirsch, which I should think could quite as well be extracted from wild plums as wild cherries, and the trees are so numerous that there ought to be quite a harvest from them.

Another story is, that she used to put sugar-plums near his bedside, to be at hand in case he should take a fancy to them in the night.

And when they crunched it at last like a ripe plum under their teeth it was a delicious tidbit, worth all the trouble they had taken to get it.

Stew one pound of fine dried French plums until tender, in water, rather more than enough to cover, with one glass of port wine, and four ounces of white sugar, which must however not be added until the plums are quite tender, then pour them with the liquor into a pie-dish, and cover with a rich puff paste, and bake.

Out of her fruit she annually conserved miracles of flavor and transparence,great plums like those in Aladdin's garden, of shining topaz,peaches tinged with the odorous bitter of their pits, and clear as amber,crimson crabs floating in their own ruby sirup, or transmuted into jelly crystal clear, yet breaking with a grain,and jelly from the acid currants to garnish her dinner-table or refresh the fevered lips of a sick neighbor.