Identifier: sixoneabroad00thom (find matches)
Title: Six and one abroad
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Thomas, Sidney J., 1868-
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Publisher: (Austin, Tex.) Printed by E.L. Steck
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ere in waiting inthe parlor, there are skeletons of tiny chicks, of mice, of cowsand swine, and snakes and tortoises, each a rattling good clewto the mystery of Pompeiian life, which by the way, with these revelations is not such a mystery after all. That they had cooks in those days wdio were equal to the demands of the most fastidious epicures is proven by a certain fine plump cake that found its way into the Museum from the dining room of a Pompeiian merchant. What a fine specimen of culinary skill it is? Exactly of similar shape and size to those our best cooks prepare, several strata high, bulging watlileaven, covered with icing and bearing the mark of some ornament on its top, a slice missing out of a triangular section of its side, crumbs on the plate and the very knife at hand that produced them, this cake comes as near actually speaking to us of the domestic life of those early days and of the hurry and alarm which followed the eruption as any of the dumb relics 176 Six and One Abroad
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Pompeii 177 of that remarkable morgue. It should be added, though, that it is black with age and hard as sandstone now, and doubtless as unpalatable. Then, there is flour, and a kind of grits, and nuts in abundance, salt and spices and sundry indispensibles of the pantry, each black with carbonization but maintaining its original shape and easily identified from its similarity to cor-responding articles of the present time. But by far the most interesting feature of Pompeii is the human beings that have been dug from the ashes. Only a little over half of the city appears to have been exhumed and yet, it is officially asserted, more than six hundred human skeletons have been found. An account of the pressing circumstances that delayed these unfortunates until it was too late to escape would make an interesting story if we but knew it. But in lieu of the written story, thanks to a lucky discovery, we are enabled to guess quite accurately, we think,the tragic circumstances that attended their d

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