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Recollections of Auton House (1909)

Hoppin, Augustus, 1828-1896 · Boston ; New York : Houghton Mifflin · leaf 84

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ing good in the bright tin-kitchen, gave one anappetite for dinner. Once on the skewer and before the roaringwood fire, it was a mere question of time that separated you from adish fit for the gods. With the air of an expert she opened theroaster to inspect the savory process. Her dredger in one… … 80 RECOLLECTIONS OF AUTON HOUSE. be served a fragrant cloud enveloped it which penetrated to thedining-room. The great mountain of breast was blistered andbrowned with half an inch of aromatic dressing. No tough, yellowpin-feathered legs stuck up before you, but lovely, bulging drum-sticks,…

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