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I can't make another before it's Christmas, to save my neck, and I used all the sugar and nearly all the flour we had." "Is it a hopeless case?" inquired Jim. "Some might not think so," poor Keno replied. "I scoured out the old Dutch oven and I've got her in a-bakin', but " "Well, maybe she ain't so worse." "Jim," answered Keno, tragically, "I didn't find out till I had her bakin' fine.
But he was persuaded to wait, and the cake was hidden away in the dining-room closet until the hour for the evening meal. When Dinah came home she noticed the mussed-up kitchen, but Nan begged of her to keep quiet. "All right, honey," said the colored cook. "But I know youse been a-bakin' I kin spell it in de air."
An' sit up burnin' candle, an' lie a-bed wi' the sun a-bakin' you like a cowcumber i' the frame? The clock hasn't been put forrard for the first time to-day, I reckon." The fact was, Hetty had really forgotten the difference of the clocks when she told Captain Donnithorne that she set out at eight, and this, with her lingering pace, had made her nearly half an hour later than usual.
Above her forehead a mist of airy curls fluttered in the warm breeze from the open window. "My, ain't it hot!" she sighed. "I got all het up a-bakin' them cakes. Shall I fry you another griddleful, papa?" "They cer'nly do taste kind o' moreish, Abby," conceded Mr. Daggett thickly. "You do beat the Dutch, Abby, when it comes t' pancakes. Mebbe I could manage a few more of 'em." Mrs.
And, oh, I say, me an' Bones are a-goin' off with him an' Rover after I 've had somethin' ter eat 't is mos' grub time, ain't it?" he added anxiously. Ann sighed in a discouraged way. "Yes, I s'pose 't is. I left some beans a-bakin', and dinner'll be ready pretty quick.
La! she's been a-bakin' doughnuts all this mornin', got up at four o'clock an' begun 'em. I never see such sugary ones. They're sights, I tell you." Polly now ran in. "I can't find Joel, Mamsie," she said sadly. "Well, Mis' Beebe said I was to bring him most partic'ler; she'd rather see him than any of the rest o' you.
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