He clasped the dear little terrier in his arms; and then we noticed that there was a sausage adhering to its tail.
"All I ask of you," Joey said with a break in his voice, "is to call him after me, and always to give him a sausage, sonny, of a Saturday night."
Beg and pray as the mouse and the sausage might, it was of no use; the bird remained master of the situation, and the venture had to be made.
The sausage started in search of wood, the bird made the fire, and the mouse put on the pot, and then these two waited till the sausage returned with the fuel for the following day.
The men and women who worked in this department were precisely the color of the "fresh country
sausage" they made.
I was so very nervous, that I had already lighted the Aged's
sausage like a torch, and been obliged to blow it out.
Perhaps he glanced at the Lyons
sausage, and perhaps he glanced at the veal in savoury jelly, but they were not there long, to make his mouth water; Monsieur Rigaud soon dispatched them, in spite of the president and tribunal, and proceeded to suck his fingers as clean as he could, and to wipe them on his vine leaves.
"How do you know he had whiskers like
sausages, as you say?"
But few at this period of the half-year could live up to a pound of Porter's
sausages, and East was in great magnificence upon the strength of theirs.
"I'm all for making a policeman into
sausages," said John Crook.
At eight o'clock, the shelves being taken down and put away and the tables joined together, everybody sat down to the tea, coffee, bread, butter, salmon, shad, liver, steak, potatoes, pickles, ham, chops, black-puddings, and
sausages, all over again.
'Dodger, take off the
sausages; and draw a tub near the fire for Oliver.