store-pantry

Updated: May 7, 2025

"Come, come, I can do as much for you as that," said aunt Miriam, proceeding to her store-pantry, "see here wouldn't this be as good as a ham-bone?" said she, bringing out of it a fat fowl; "how would a wallop of this do?" "Admirably! only the ham-bone used to come out again, and I am confident this never would."

Susan Warner - Queechy