Watercressy

Did these French trout expect me to dress my fly in garlic or tomato sauce before they would look at it? For that trout must be in such a stream—so clear, so sparkling, so flowing, so curvy, so watercressy—was as clear as that the Republic is a dreadful come-down from the Empire.

Two quick hot soups . . . one’s garlicky, one’s watercressy / Those long-time salad favorites, watercress and garlic, take the leading role in these two quick soups for fall.

Tables were laid with cold pheasant, watercressy finger foods, sweets sufficient to give the Greater Raleigh Area sugar shock.

Perched up there she could gaze down on the rivulet bubbling through its green watercressy bed, with soft water-meadows, a grazing pony or two, and the fields rising in a smoothly, well-ordered chalk-country way to the near horizon.

Now we’ll hear all the newses from Ballyvadlea – births, deaths, marriages, childer an’ by-childer, the price of eggs, turkeys, hins, guinea-hins, what the priest roared outa him last Sunda, various unrests, another landlord shot, a bullock maimed, who won the hurlin’ at Mullinahone, who was stretched an’ who The Hayro, an’ who put the bad eye on them geese in the meado’ other side o’ the watercressy strayme there …