Soup does very well without--Maybe it's always pepper that makes people hot-tempered,' she went on, very much pleased at having found out a new kind of rule, `and vinegar that makes them sour--and camomile that makes them bitter--and--andbarley-sugar and such things that make children sweet-tempered.

Not one of these delicacies had he ever offered to poor Jacob, for David was not a young man to waste his jujubes andbarley-sugar in giving pleasure to people from whom he expected nothing.

The Grade II-listed pub has an extravagantly half-timbered exterior, sporting gables, carved woodwork, leaded glass andbarley-sugar chimneys.