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Updated: May 5, 2025
"I means a puddin', Johnny Green, with as many `gammies' as the boys don't `sneak' when the cook's working up the duff!"
"The proof of the puddin' is in the atin', Jim; an' ye don't know the furrst thing about house-kapin'. Ye can no more kape house widout a pig, nor ye can row yer boat widout a paddle. I'm an owld house-kaper, Jim, an' I know; an' a man that don't tend to his pig furrst, is no betther nor a b'y. Ye might put 'im in Number Tin, but he'd go through it quicker nor water through a baskit.
"Sure and I just saved 'em, and that's all!" he cried, as he put them to steam dry. "I'll peep in the oven, so I will," he said. "That roast needs bastin', so it does." He heard the General come in. "There's a puddin' in the warm oven," he continued, "but I don't know nothin' about that. It's long since we've had puddin' at home. I'll just dress the potatoes and whip 'em up light.
An' puddin'. Cock 'em up with puddin' a fat lot of it I ever saw where I was raised. An' off to the township on Saturday afternoon, an' lucky if they get back in time for milkin' nex' mornin'. No the workin' man ain't what 'e was, an' the new kind'll make precious little of Australia!" "That's about right, I'm afraid," said Jim, listening sympathetically to this oration.
"Let her find it out herself," replied the man. "Don't you go to burnin' your fingers in other folks' puddin', Maria." "Do you s'pose she'll see anything?" asked the woman with a spasmodic shudder and a terrified roll of her eyes. "See!" returned her husband with stolid scorn. "Better be sure there's anything to see." "Oh, Thomas, they say "
"Yes," put in Captain Sam, "and, now you are here, you're goin' to stay a spell. Oh, yes, you are, too. Uncle Sam don't need you so hard that he can't let you have an hour or so off on Thanksgiving Day. Maud, why in time didn't we think to have Major Grover here for dinner along with the rest of the folks? Say, couldn't you eat a plate of frozen puddin' right this minute?
"I'm so hungry," said she; "isn't it 'most supper time?" "It's only five; but you appear to be so lonesome that I'll make a fire this minute and put on the tea-kettle," replied the kind-hearted Polly. "What does your grandmother generally have for supper?" "Cake sometimes," answered Dotty, her eyes brightening; "and tarts." "And perjerves," added Katie; "and and yice puddin'."
Reets, who had for time immemorial entertained the probable angels who appeared at Mount Pisgah in ministerial guise, remarked that "preacher seemed all tuckered out by that talk; tuk his critter, an' left town 'fore the puddin' was done." That same evening, the sheriff and his deputy, with several special assistants, rode from Mount Pisgah toward Matalette's section.
It's too bad, do, dat I find a hole she's born in de bottom of de sospan, so dat I must put de puddin' in de kettle, which has not got big mouth; but she's pretty big around de middle, so I suppose de puddin' she's cook just as well dare."
'Fu sure! but de more stomach dat's more better for dis puddin', replied the little Frenchman cheerfully. After a time the tables were cleared and pushed back to the wall, and pipes were produced. In all attitudes suggestive of comfort the men disposed themselves in a wide circle about the fire, which now roared and crackled up the great wooden chimney hanging from the roof.
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