Charles Dickens
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I am a neat hand at cookery, and I'll tell you what I knocked up for my Christmas-eve dinner in the Library Cart. I knocked up a beefsteak-pudding for one, with two kidneys, a dozen oysters, and a couple of mushrooms thrown in. It's a pudding to put a man in good humour with everything, except the two bottom buttons of his waistcoat. ✨ M. R. James, Arthur Conan Doyle, Saki, Sabine Baring-Gould, Thomas Hardy (2017). Spooky Christmas: 30+ Supernatural & Eerie Tales: Ghost Stories, Horror Tales & Legends: The Silver Hatchet, Wolverden Tower, The Wolves of Cernogratz, The Box with the Iron Clamps, The Grave by the Handpost, The Ghost’s Touch…, p.285, e-artnow

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