Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 434
should like to know, says Aunt Jane,severely. Truly, dear Mamma and Auntie,—to make realpies. Watch them : the clay (molding-clay, mydears, is the grown-up name of mud) is nice andsoft, and the smiling children roll it out, cover theirtoy pie-plates, cut out their baby biscuits, kneadtheir… … We need it in bread and we need it in butter.When boiling potatoes we put it in water;We use it in meat and we use it in pudding.Indeed we cant cook without salt. Then the mud-pie play is over; but is nt itgood that even these poor little city babies, whonever saw nice country mud,—that is,…
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