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• Come and have tea with me, will you, in my room Stephen, who had bounded as if shot on hearing the master's unexpected voice behind him, turned round and blushed very red, and said "Thank you," and then looked like a criminal just summoned to the gallows That's right, come along;" and the master took the lad by the arm and marched him off to his room Here the sight of muffins and red-currant jam, in addition to the ordinary attractions of a tea-table, somewhat revived Stephen's drooping spirits Make yourself comfortable, my boy, while the tea is brewing," said Mr Rastle, cheerily. —  The Fifth Form at Saint Dominic's A School Story
• That grassy place in the garden near the currant-bushes would be just an elegant place for a meeting I vote with Marty for out-of-doors," said Ruth. —  A Missionary Twig
• Mrs. Moss went to take a nap; Bab and Betty sat demurely on their bench reading Sunday books; no boys were allowed to come and play; even the hens retired under the currant-bushes, and the cock stood among them, clucking drowsily, as if reading them a sermon Dreadful slow day," thought Ben, and, retiring to the recesses of his own room, he read over the two letters which seemed already old to him. —  St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, V. 5, Nov 1877-Nov 1878 Scribner's Illustrated
• MULLED JELLY.--Take one tablespoonful of currant or grape jelly; beat it with the white of one egg and a little loaf sugar; pour on it one-half pint of boiling water and break in a slice of dry toast or two crackers 4. —  Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage
• Vegetables thrive well, and all the ordinary fruits, apples, currants, etcetera, are excessively abundant, some of the currant-bushes breaking down with the weight of their fruit. —  Handbook to the new Gold-fields

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