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Recollections of Auton house : a book for children (1881)

Hoppin, Augustus, 1828-1896 · Boston : Houghton Mifflin · leaf 89

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ndia-rubbers when she hungout the clothes on Mondays. She was very superstitious, and be-lieved that the horse-shoes she had hung on the old crane kept ofFthe witches. To see Rosannah out of the kitchen and in her bestbonnet, you would never recognize her. On the public streets hercountenance wore… … Father Anton being quite epicurean in his taste, Eosannah thecook and he were naturally en rapport. For she knew just howlong to cook his venison, and just the extra pinch of spice to putin his calfs-head soup, and just the amount of brandy for his mincepies. Her roast pig on Fourth of Julys would…

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