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This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 52 pages. Dimensions: 9.5in. x 7.1in. x 0.2in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 Excerpt: . . . had been got, with much difficulty, into the house, we ourselves felt that we had tasted nothing save a biscuit since nine in the morning. If you will get us some chops, eggs, and nice fresh butter, and let us have some boiling water, we shall do capitally for to-night, Aunt Emma said reassuringly to the landlady. We make our coffee ourselves. Is your shop closed or will you be able to get us the coffee to-night Then in the rather hard tones of the district we were made aware of the even harder facts that there was no shop nearer than the Compstall store; that eggs came in from the neighbouring farms, and had to be ordered beforehand j that butter made its appearance only once a week with the milkman; that coffee was a thing never asked for, and consequently never kept at any tf the little shops in the vicinity; and that (this being Tuesday) we might not hope to get any flesh-meat until Friday. Having crushed us with these hard truths, the landlady revived us by an offer of bread-and-cheese, and produced from a store she kept for the use of chance lodgers two or three of the tiniest bottles of Bass I have ever been introduced to. How gratefully and with what excellent appetite we partook of this fare, and how gladly we afterwards ascended to the bedrooms, that were fresh and sweet with the air that blew straight from the undefiled Peak, is written on the tablets of our memories. At starting, Aunt Emma, feeling herself to have been A Good Opening. 99 the motive power which had brought us here, bore up gallantly, and made light of all shortcomings. She even said to me sportively the morning after our arrival--Now, Edith, I consider this a first-rate opening for the display of that culinary talent on which you ha. . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN.

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 Excerpt: ... had been got, with much difficulty, into the house, we ourselves felt that we had tasted nothing save a biscuit since nine in the morning. "If you will get us some chops, eggs, and nice fresh butter, and let us have some boiling water, we shall do capitally for to-night," Aunt Emma said reassuringly to the landlady. "We make our coffee ourselves. Is your shop closed? or will you be able to get us the coffee to-night?" Then in the rather hard tones of the district we were made aware of the even harder facts that there was " no shop nearer than the Compstall store; that eggs came in from the neighbouring farms, and had to be ordered beforehand j that butter made its appearance only once a week with the milkman; that coffee was a thing never asked for, and consequently never kept at any tf the little shops in the vicinity; and that (this being Tuesday) we might not hope to get any 'flesh-meat' until Friday." Having crushed us with these hard truths, the landlady revived us by an offer of bread-and-cheese, and produced from a store she kept for the use of chance lodgers two or three of the tiniest bottles of Bass I have ever been introduced to. How gratefully and with what excellent appetite we partook of this fare, and how gladly we afterwards ascended to the bedrooms, that were fresh and sweet with the air that blew straight from the undefiled Peak, is written on the tablets of our memories. At starting, Aunt Emma, feeling herself to have been A Good Opening. 99 the motive power which had brought us here, bore up gallantly, and made light of all shortcomings. She even said to me sportively the morning after our arrival--"Now, Edith, I consider this a first-rate opening for the display of that culinary talent on which you ha... Paperback, Label: RareBooksClub.com, RareBooksClub.com, Product group: Book, Published: 2012-05-14, Studio: RareBooksClub.com.

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Annie Thomas, Books, Fiction and Literature, Fiction, The Modern Housewife, The Modern Housewife.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Through The Stacks LLC, NY, Brockport, [RE:3].
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