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. Auton 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…
Auton House (Providence, R.I.) · Children's literature
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