NOVEMBER 101 



as you require two or three times through a mincing 

 machine. Fry it in about two ounces of butter for a few 

 minutes. Add pepper, salt, a little flour, and gravy or 

 water. Let this simmer for about twenty minutes, 

 keeping it well stirred to prevent it getting lumpy. A 

 little minced onion may be fried with the butter, and is 

 a great improvement. This receipt is very useful in 

 wild countries where the meat is hard and bad, and 

 where other food is deficient. 



How to Dress Cod. Take some slices of a small 

 cod and bake them in the oven in a little butter, with a 

 squeeze of lemon -juice, exactly as you would do salmon. 

 Serve with Tartare Sauce, as in * Dainty Dishes' ; only, 

 instead of putting it in a boat, which means a wastefully 

 large quantity, serve it in a little flat dish with a small 

 spoon. Brown bread and butter should also be handed 

 with it. 



November 21st. This is the first time in my life that 

 the short days have drawn in shorter and shorter and 

 that I have found myself alone, having to make up my 

 mind that being alone is my future, that my time is at 

 my own disposal, and that I am to live so always, except 

 for occasional visitors, who will grow fewer as time 

 goes on. 



It is not sad to turn the face towards home, 



Even though it shows the journey nearly done ; 

 It is not sad to mark the westering sun, 



Even though we know the night doth come. 



I do not dread loneliness in itself ; but those who live 

 with one, if they are kind and just, do take their share 

 of the burden of life, and it is hard to have no one to 

 whom one can go with those numberless little things 

 which are often big things in life's routine, and that one 

 hides away from those who come in from the outside 

 world as guests, be they ever so near and dear. It is 



