Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 179
nd worse yet—said somuch about the style of boarding. But the dishesof coarse crockery, with blue edges, such as theyused at home to bake pies on, the big, awkwardknives and two-tined forks, the unbleached table-cloth, the square table, with leaves propped up, so!that you had to be careful not to… … DEAR ! DEAR ! WHAT AN APPETITE BOVS DO HAVE ! which she hated to peel, and boiled cabbage,—which she could just manage to swallow. Mr. Primkins did not ask her what she wouldhave. He piled a plate up with beef, potatoes, andcabbage, and handed it over to her in such a mat-ter of course way, that…
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