chicken-dish

Updated: July 10, 2025

Then she looked at the chicken-dish, and now at the bowl of gruel which she had carefully set on the back of the stove to keep warm. "Don't know ez it would hurt 'im any ef I'd thicken that gruel up into mush. He's took sech a distaste to soft food sense he's got that new set." She rose as she spoke, poured the gruel back into the pot, sifted and mixed a spoonful of meal and stirred it in.

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