His Mother's Cooking.
He sat at the dinner-table there, With a discontented frown ; The potatoes and steak were underdone , And the bread was baked too brown. The pie too sour, the pudding too sweet, And the meat was much too fat ; The soup so greasy, too, and salt, 'Twas hardly fit for the cat. • s I wish you could taste the bread and pies I've seen my mother make ; They were something like, and 'twould do you good Just to look at a slice of her cake. Said the smiling wife : " I'll improve with age Just now I'm but a beginner. But your mother called to see me today, And I eot her to cook the dinner !"
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Manawatu Herald, 18 October 1900, Page 3
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117His Mother's Cooking. Manawatu Herald, 18 October 1900, Page 3
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