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Jane Field

CHAPTER VII
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I wish sometimes there wasn't no such thing as garden sauce.

I tell 'em sometimes I guess if they had to get the things ready an' cook 'em themselves, they'd go without.
Seems sometimes as if the whole creation was like a kitchen without any pump in it, specially contrived to make women folks extra work.
Looks to me as if pease without pods could have been contrived pretty easy, and it does seem as if there wasn't any need of havin' strings on the beans." "Mis' Green has got a kind of beans without any strings," said Amanda.

"She brought me over some the other day, an' they were about the best I ever eat." "Well, I know there is a kind without strings," returned Mrs.
Babcock; "but I ain't got none in my garden, an' I never shall have.
It ain't my lot to have things come easy.

Seems as if it got hotter an' hotter.

Why don't you open your front door ?" "Jest as sure as I do, the house will be swarmin' with flies." "You'd ought to have a screen-door.


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