Tea is becoming a favourite drink in Turkey, not instead of coffee, but of the sherbet or cool drinks that are handed to guests; it comes generally from Russia, and although a trifle dear on account of the carriage, is extremely good, when properly made.

She had saved it out of her social security money: the pancrack as she contemptuously called it.

That cream gravy on the chicken Maryland, beaten biscuit browned in butter and the calorieful dessert will take some resisting.

We sprankled water on the clothes to damp'm 'em down to make 'em easier to am an'en rolled 'em up and poked 'em down in a piller slip to keep ,em damp.