Perhaps He will send me the money next.

But may it not be intended also to make us live more simply--on vegetables perhaps?
Do you not remember how it fared with Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, when they refused the meat and the wine, and ate pulse instead?
At the end of ten days their countenances appeared fairer and fatter in flesh than all the children which did eat the portion of the king's meat.

Pulse, you know, means peas and beans, and every thing of that kind--which is now proved to be almost as full of nourishment as meat itself, and to many constitutions more wholesome.

Let us have a dinner of beans.

You can buy haricot beans at the grocer's--can you not?
If Ducky does not thrive on them, or they don't agree with you, my Dorothy, you will have only to drop them.