St Nicholas [serial] . ing-roomwith her head held high in the air. were more perplexing thancompound proportion. One pint of cold boiledmilk, she read. Twoquarts of sifted flour. At that stressful momentthe door opened and looked in. Why do you try to makeanything so difficult the firsttime, dear? she asked. Iknow some experiencedcooks who hesitate to at-tempt Parker House imagine that theyare simple just because thosethat our Norah makes arealways so delicious. But I know they renot simple, mama, re-sponded Sally. For, yousee, we girls thought wewould do the hard thing
St Nicholas [serial] . ing-roomwith her head held high in the air. were more perplexing thancompound proportion. One pint of cold boiledmilk, she read. Twoquarts of sifted flour. At that stressful momentthe door opened and looked in. Why do you try to makeanything so difficult the firsttime, dear? she asked. Iknow some experiencedcooks who hesitate to at-tempt Parker House imagine that theyare simple just because thosethat our Norah makes arealways so delicious. But I know they renot simple, mama, re-sponded Sally. For, yousee, we girls thought wewould do the hard thingsfirst, and then the easy oneswould nt be any bother atall—they would just cometo us naturally. Well, you must not ex-pect Norah to help you atall—it would be contraryto your regulations, youknow. Go on with yourwork, Norah; Miss Sallywill find whatever she wants,and when she is through shewill wash her own dishes and put them away. Huh! thats a gray horse of another color,is nt it? scoffed Jack, who, with thoughts. WHERE THE SURPRISE CAME IN. turned on offensive warfare, happened into thekitchen by way of the back porch just as hismother happened out of it by way of the dining-room : such coincidences were a common thingin the house of Comstock. My! Sally, but But she had her weapons, and when Jack, hisoccupation gone, insisted on showing her howto fix up those P. H. rolls, she opened thedoor into the dining-room and called with therising inflection of sustained patience:
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