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The Girl at the Halfway House

CHAPTER XIII
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"Ye're a thrue conservative.
But now, just ye watch Batty while he goes to work." Battersleigh busied himself about the little box which made his cupboard, and soon had out what he called his "ingraydeyints." "Of course, ye've to take a little flour," he said, "that's for the osseous structure, so to speak.

Ye've to add a little grease of some sort, lard or butter, an' we've nayther; the bacon fat'll do, methinks.
Of course, there's the bakin' powder.

Fer I've always noticed that when ye take flour ye take also bakin' powder.

Salt?
No, I'm sure there's no salt goes in at all; that's against reason, an' ye'll notice that the principles of philosophy go into all the ways of life.

And, lastly, makin', as I may say, the roundin' out of the muscular and adipose tissue of the crayture, as the sowl of the pie we must have the apples.


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