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"Why, yes we will," cried Polly, hopping off too, and speaking very decidedly; "the boys will like it just as much as we do." "The boys like a cooking club!" screamed Alexia, standing quite still. "Yes, indeed," said Polly. "Why, Jasper used to like our baking-days in the little brown house, you know he did, Alexia, like everything." "Oh, dear! yes, I know," said Alexia reluctantly.
Fancy living in a land where all the servants are skilled and civil, if not all trustworthy and honest; where washing-days and ironing-days and baking-days are unknown; where there are no staircases to sweep down and no front-door steps to scour; where rents and eating and all other household expenses may be gauged in accordance with one's purse.
Here Henry Rogers brought chips in a wheelbarrow from the shipyard on baking-days; here he hoed the garden and helped his mother fasten up the flaming, flaring hollyhocks against the house with strips of old sailcloth and tacks.
It was often a meeting-place for the children, who hung about the door on baking-days hoping for hot crumbs stout Solomon from across the road; Rachel and Rebekah, Naomi's particular friends; little Enoch, who walked with a limp and who would never grow any taller, though he might live to be ever so old.
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