There they would dine at some rustic Gasthof, and afterwards, whilst her father and his friends smoked, drank their Rhine wine, and brought out the inevitable cards and dice in the shady, vine-trellised garden, Madelon, wandering about here and there, in and out, through yard and court, and garden and kitchen, poking her small nose everywhere, gained much primary information on many subjects, from the growing of cabbages to the making sauerkraut-from the laying of eggs by ever-hopeful hens, to their final fulfilment of a ruthless destiny in a frying-pan.
"My Little Lady"
Eleanor Frances Poynter
Berthe shook her head, her glance meanwhile resting mechanically on a small young man with a budding beard and a pale face, who had just taken a seat opposite her and was timidly ordering a portion of sauerkraut.
"Fantômas"
Pierre Souvestre Marcel Allain
You jest come over to the house and fill up on salt pork and sauerkraut.
"The-Circus-Boys-Across-the-Continent-or-Winning-New-Laurels-on-the-Tanbark"
Darlington, Edgar B. P.