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And Josiah said in his opinion the water would make crackin' good coffee, and he wished he had a good cup and a dozen or so of my nut-cakes. We visited a carpenter shop which wuz, I spoze, about like the shop of Joseph, lots of different tools on shelves and nails on the side on't, some like Jonesville shops.
And he said, "I wouldn't worry over folks I never neighbored with, and I'd better tend to my own companion, who wuz starvin' slowly by my side." He couldn't been so very hungry havin' eat so many nut-cakes since breakfast, but I dealt out some more to him.
He shook his head, however, as he felt the heat reflected from it, and gathered up the skirts of his great as he passed up the broad aisle to the deacon's seat. Old Uncle Noah Stone, a wealthy farmer of the West End, who sat near, scowled and muttered at the effects of the heat, but waited until noon to utter his maledictions over his nut-cakes and cheese at the intermission.
Then, aft'r a while, when Mary an' Helen bring in the cookies, nut-cakes, cider, an' apples, Mother says: 'I don't b'lieve we're goin' to hev enough apples to go round; Ezry, I guess I'll have to get you to go down-cellar for some more. Then I says: 'All right, Mother, I'll go, providin' some one'll go along an' hold the candle. An' when I say this I look right at Laura and she blushes.
I shall not attempt to record the thoughts that chased one another through the mind of the luckless adventurer. But they were by no means pleasant. "I shall never see Green Mountain Mills again," he thought, with an inward groan. "I shall never marry Susan Jones, or eat any of marm's nut-cakes. If I only had my rifle here, I'd make one effort for my life.
And he thought mebby I would set out under the slippery ellum makin' ginger cookies or fryin' nut-cakes, in either capacity he said I wuz a study for an artist and would draw crowds. "The wife of Josiah Allen fryin' nut-cakes, what a sound it would have through the world." "No, Josiah," sez I, "I shan't try to fry nut-cakes in a open lot without ingregients or fire."
"If I only had a few of marm's nut-cakes," he had said the night before to his new-found friends, "I'd be a happy man." "What are nut-cakes?" asked the Scotchman, puzzled. "Don't you know what nut-cakes are?" inquired Ebenezer, astonished at Ferguson's ignorance. "I never heard of them before," said Ferguson. "Well, I declare! I thought everybody knew what nut-cakes are," ejaculated the Yankee.
"Indeed I am, my dear!" he answered, with a laugh, as he caught both children in his arms and kissed them. "You are very welcome, and you have come just in time to share my dinner." He took them to the table and fed them with fresh milk and nut-cakes. When they had eaten enough he asked: "Why have you made this long journey to see me?"
Scotland, however, fell considerably in the estimation of Mr. Onthank, when he learned that his favorite article of food was almost unknown in that distant country. "You Scotchmen don't know what is good," he said. "If you ever come to Green Mountain Mills, I'll get marm to fry a batch of nut-cakes, and you'll say they're goloptious."
I wus makin' nut-cakes in the buttery; and I shuddered so at these words, that I got in most as much agin lemon as I wanted in 'em. I wus a droppin' it into a spoon, and it run over, I wus that shook at the thought of his plan. I had known his plans in the past, and had hefted 'em. And I truly felt that his plans wus liable any time to be the death of him, and the ruination. But he wouldn't tell!
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