Then, with a home-cured ham tucked under his arm, the King waved goodbye and drove back to Chicago to tell the Queen all about it.
Thus the worried calls reporting "summat amiss" frequently mark the unspoken fear that the caller's family may face a winter with no milk money for clothing or no home-cured ham .
Frank had three eggs, half a dozen strips of home-cured bacon, four pieces of toast heavy with butter and jam, two cups of coffee.