It could not be done sooner, because the only perfect sausage-maker, the very king of his trade, prepares these savory cylinders only once a week.

A few hours ago he completed the making of the sausages, and to-morrow morning my mother will warm up for our breakfasts the noble mess, which she is preparing for us this evening--for, as I have told you, it is in its warmed-up state that it is the ideal of its kind.

What will follow by way of sweets we shall owe again to my mother's art; but the cheering and invigorating element--I mean the wine that I drives dull care away, we owe to my sister." "I will come," said Pontius, "if my guest leaves me an hour free, and I shall enjoy the excellent dish.

But what does a gay bird like you know of dull care ?" "The words fit into the metre," replied Pollux.

"I inherit from my father--who, when he is not gate-keeping, sings and recites--a troublesome tendency whenever anything incites me to drift into rhythm." "But to-day you have been more silent than usual, and yet you seemed to me to be extraordinarily content.