The little housekeepers; or, Pattikin's house1882 |
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עמוד 17 - sa new kind of seed," she explained. " My niece sent them from down below. She says they produce a vine that bears a beautiful red fruit larger than a plum or an apple, — not at all like either, — but very nice, stewed for sauce or eaten raw. The city folks set great store by them. They call them tomatoes, and they must be planted early in a hotbed, if you want them to do much up here.
עמוד 7 - ... significant than anything she said to me privately. I don't think I can fail now, do you ?' ' I think, I am sure, you have no reason for fear in the matter now. I should think it unbecoming in either Kate or my mother to go so far and draw back without very good and strong reason.' He crossed his legs, leaned his elbow on the table, and his head on his hand. ' I feel certain I may count on it now. You cannot believe what a relief it is to me. I would not go through the last week again for all...
עמוד 23 - ... would be more behind, till frost came. By that time the minister had really learned to like them; and Simon and Thirza and Tilda, who always wished to do as their father did, liked them too. But nothing could induce Pattikin to taste them again. They learned to dry them, to make catsup of them, to seal them up in bottles; and, in short, the tomato was from this time an institution in the minister's family.