llow soft custard, a piece of trembling blanc-mange,specked with little particles of almond shells which lay in the im-mediate vicinity, one five-fingered piece of preserved ginger, thesyrup of which had run under the bottom of the whip-glass andstuck the same to the plate.A heap of raisins, two… … light Antons parties. Once, on acold December night when thethermometer was at zero, andthe carriage-wheels creaked on the snow, occurred quite an excitingevent. The back drawing-room fire-place was piled up with logs tomultiply the heat. There was neither gas nor furnace in thosedays, and people…
Auton House (Providence, R.I.) · Children's literature
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