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Recollections of Auton House .. (1889)

Hoppin, Augustus, 1828-1896 · Boston, Houghton, Mifflin and Co. · leaf 48

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on balusters, three steps at atime, while poor Debrah was beseeching us tomake less noise, the invading host came thun-dering down to tea. Fish-balls, brown-bread toast, hot biscuits,baked beans, Indian pudding, and quince marmalade vanished be-fore these hungry Philistines as quickly as a western… … 44 RECOLLECTIONS OF AUTON HOUSE. Anton boy came within hail of any article in the above category.A symposium of smoke was instituted in the little Green-roomafter tea. The hospitable front door constantly admitted some freshaddition to the genial company — either Tris, who hitched Katie in the…

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