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The treasure chest of my bookhouse (1920)

Miller, Olive Beaupré, ed, Wyeth, N. C. (Newell Convers), 1882-1945, illustrator · Chicago : The Bookhouse for children · leaf 352

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all he could wish for of variety and profusion right athand,—goats flesh and milk, turtle, crawfish, fish, turnips,parsnips, radishes, cabbage, watercress, and a variety of smallbut delicious black plum, the only article of his diet now noteasily procurable, for they grew in places hard to come at… … 349 MY BOOK HOUSE pimento quite as well as when he had it seasoned with salt. The wood of the pimento he used entirely for firewood andas it burned, it gave off a most delicious fragrance and servedhim both for warmth and candle, throwing up a splendid blazethat lit all the darkness about. He was…

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