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  • •Kathy Eaton of Booneville, Miss., recalls a cast-iron-skillet-style potato dish called "slumgullion," or so she thinks, after watching an old episode of Gunsmoke, which she learned from her father, "who would be 103 this year. Father's Day contest brims with memories, recipes
  • With a mocking gurgle, about a dram of "slumgullion" passed into his mouth. The Mascot of Sweet Briar Gulch
  • This Christmas was nothing spectacular, and not at all rich for sailors like us - we had our Christmas services and the galley and prayed over our meal of slumgullion and treats of candied fruits.
  • I told him, then spooned more slumgullion into my mouth.
  • Station food isn't merely bad; it's condemned army bacon and "slumgullion," a concoction that "pretended to be tea" but contained "too much dish-rag, and sand, and old bacon-rind ... to deceive the intelligent traveler. Twain's American Journey
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  • A few days after Raintree took it over, he was lookin 'round the garden, which old Sobriente had always kept shut up agin strangers, and he finds a lot of dried-up' slumgullion'* scattered all about the borders and beds, just as if the old man had been using it for fertilizing. Mr. Jack Hamlin's Mediation
  • Once the final notes of ‘Hey Sailor’ had been played, we all clapped, and Batcha's galley-maid and another kitchen-hand sent porringers of vegetable slumgullion down the long tables for our evening meal.
  • The saturated red soil overflowed the brim with that liquid ooze known as "slumgullion," and turned the crystal pool to the color of blood until the soil was washed away. From Sand Hill to Pine
  • His breast, legs, and feet -- when not reddened by "slumgullion," in which he was fond of wading -- were white. Selected Stories of Bret Harte
  • By the time I was done with that, the tiny bit of slumgullion that remained was cold; that was my supper that I would eat in my tiny quarter.
  • A dank, fresh-fishy smell pervades the atmosphere; and such houses as were open to public view bore evident signs of inundation on the walls and 'slumgullion' on the floors. The Recent Floods in Sacramento Valley, California
  • His fondness for paddling in the ditches and "slumgullion" at one time suggested a water spaniel. Selected Stories of Bret Harte
  • The name "Slumgullion Pass" came about because the color of the sliding mud reminded local gold miners of the muddy sediments, called slumgullion, in their sluice boxes. The Vail Trail - All Sections

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