You have spent your last eighty centimes on half a litre of milk, and are boiling it over the spirit lamp. While it boils a bug runs down your forearm; you give the bug a flick with your nail, and it falls, plop! straight into the milk. There is nothing for it but to throw the milk away and go foodless.

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We have already seen the fear in the Abkhaz Autonomous Republic that decentralization of power to their union republic of Georgia will lead to a policy of Georgification of the Abkhazi.

Add a few slices of fresh tomato, or a few french fried potatoes, or small quantities of green lima beans, diced celery, small whole boiled onions, green peas, sliced green pepper, or cooked carrots and turnips to the serving platter.