But it is time I was at those custards.

Charlie, put down those peas and go into the other room, and bring me a basket of eggs you will find on the table." "And be sure to overset the milk that's 'long side of it--yer hear ?" added Aunt Rachel.
Charlie thought to himself that he would like to accommodate her, but he denied himself that pleasure; on the ground that it might not be safe to do it.
Mrs.Thomas was a housekeeper of the old school, and had a scientific knowledge of the manner in which all sorts of pies and puddings were compounded.

She was so learned in custards and preserves that even Aunt Rachel sometimes deferred to her superior judgment in these matters.
Carefully breaking the eggs, she skilfully separated the whites from the yolks, and gave the latter to Charlie to beat.

At first he thought it great fun, and he hummed some of the popular melodies of the day, and kept time with his foot and the spatula.

But pretty soon he exhausted his stock of tunes, and then the performances did not go off so well.