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Updated: May 6, 2025

"I must say that with all her virtues she never was a first-class housekeeper, but I wouldn't say it to any but a friend. You never eat no preserves o' hers that wa'n't commencin' to work, an' you know as well as I how little forethought she had about putting away her woolens.

Sarah Orne Jewett - A Country Doctor and Selected Stories and Sketches