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Now, at seven, she was as tall as most children of ten, immensely fat, with pendulous red cheeks that in spite of cold cream and soft water always looked as though they had just been rubbed with a grater. Her hair, long and fair, was dank, hanging in two emaciated pig-tails nearly to her waist, and her nails another ineradicable trick bitten to the deepest depths possible.
"Where do you keep your nutmegs, Dinah?" said Miss Ophelia, with the air of one who prayed for patience. "Most anywhar, Missis; there's some in that cracked tea-cup, up there, and there's some over in that ar cupboard." "Here are some in the grater," said Miss Ophelia, holding them up. "Laws, yes, I put 'em there this morning, I likes to keep my things handy," said Dinah.
Hortense squirmed uneasily and wished somebody could help Aunt Esmerelda get a new grater. But she couldn't tell the cook where the grater was, or how it got there, or poor old Aunt Esmerelda might leave and never come back, frightened as she was of spooks and similar things.
You tell us that this God of yours, whom you desire that we should take as our God, so that you may become His chief prophets in the land, was a wizard such as we are, though grater than we are; for not only did He know the past and the future as we do, but also He could cure those who were smitten with hopeless sickness, and raise those who were dead, which we cannot do.
"I knew it!" she exclaimed, full of excitement. "What did you know?" Andy asked. "It's the Grater! The one that hangs in Aunt Esmerelda's kitchen." "Let me see him!" cried Malay Kris. On the roof above their heads, light footsteps pattered rhythmically. "I do believe they're dancing!" Hortense said. They ran to the ladder and scrambled up. "Careful! We mustn't let them see us," Hortense warned.
Pope Urban, a bacon-picker. Melusina was a kitchen drudge-wench. Matabrune, a laundress. Cleopatra, a crier of onions. Helen, a broker for chambermaids. Semiramis, the beggars' lice-killer. Dido did sell mushrooms. Penthesilea sold cresses. Lucretia was an alehouse-keeper. Hortensia, a spinstress. Livia, a grater of verdigris.
When you dish it, if there is whey in the mug, lie it gently out without pressing the curd; lay it on a deep dish, and pour fresh cream over it; have powdered loaf-sugar to eat with it; also hand the nutmeg grater. Prepared rennet can be had at almost any druggist's, and at a reasonable price.
Now the whole of the oil which contains this fragrance is at the surface is, in fact, the yellow portion of the rind; therefore this, and only this, must be removed with the grater. The white part underneath is bitter, and will cause milk or cream to curdle, but it contains no particle of lemon flavor.
When the corn became too hard for us to use in this way, we used to make a grater out of an old piece of tin and would grate the corn and make meal of it in this way until it was hard enough to go to the mill. When the cotton picking season came on we could pick cotton for the neighbors and in that way could have a plenty to eat. They paid fifty cents a hundred pounds for picking cotton.
Dinner which we ate with our feet on boards under the table, to keep them off the cold stone floor was astonishingly good, and we quite enjoyed grating cheese into our soup on a funny little grater with which each one of us was supplied.
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