Flora and Fred play housekeeping

Chapter 1. Invitation

GOOD HEALTH BROWN BREAD

If you will look within this book,

Hans and Hilda you will meet;

In wooden shoes they bear the news,

“Our cooking 1 is sweet and good to eat.”

One day Hilda was cooking in a wee little kitchen in Holland far across the sea. She had to work alone and she sighed,

“A Cooking Club would be such fun;

I wish the plan was half begun.”

To her surprise, the four white plates on the plate rack on the wall began to rattle, and they began to talk in their crisp, china voices.

Said each plate upon the shelf, “Why don’t you start the Club your¬ self?”

Hilda smiled and started to wash the kitchen floor.

Said the Mop upon the Floor,

“I thought of the Cooking Club be¬ fore.”

Over and over in Hilda’s mind the words kept coming, “A Cooking Club, A Cooking Club.”

She said, “I think each Tiny Tot Will enjoy the idea like as not.”

My, how clean Hilda’s kitchen was.

Everything in her kitchen shone clear and bright.

To her surprise, the well polished kitch¬ en table began to talk.

Said the wooden kitchen table,

“To start the Cooking Club you’re able.”

“My,” said Hilda, “what fun we Tiny Tots could have cooking together, and planning together, and eating our meals together. It is not much fun to have to cook or play alone.”

“The Club’s a good idea, I declare,” Said the wooden kitchen chair.

Hilda laughed and said, “I never knew so much magic in the kitchen in all my life. Everything has a voice and every¬ thing talks to me.” She was wondering what she would hear next,

When the blue tiles upon the wall Said, “I like your idea best of all.”

Hilda was nearly done with her morn¬ ing work when she remembered she had not shaken the blue rug on the floor. As she picked it up, her eyes grew big with surprise for under one corner she found a round, shining, golden florin, which, in American money would be about forty cents.

The rug fairly shouted to her,

“The Club will need supplies, you know,

So to the grocery store please go.”

Hilda said, “It is like living in a Fairy Tale today, for everything talks to me and I have delightful surprises.”

“I am not surprised at all,”

Said the bed within the wall.

Hilda had a funny bed built in the wall, and in the day time she drew a curtain across it.

“The Club will be a success, that’s cer¬ tain,”

Said the pretty new,blue curtain.

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Hilda said, “I will have to put on a clean dress and clean bonnet and my woodien shoes. I will have to take my market basket and go to town. I will have to tell brother Hans about the Cooking Club.”

She said,

“I wonder how the florin came there;

It was a fine surprise, I declare.”

Hilda put on her dress with the pretty blue and red stripes upon it, and she put on a cute little white cap with red and yellow trimming 1 .

She said,

“I can walk miles to tell the news,

In my funny wooden shoes.”

“Clump, clump, clump,” went the wood¬ en shoes across the kitchen, and then and there a surprising thing happened.

A Fairy came bounding into the kitch¬ en, and said,

“I am really on a vacation;

I am the Fairy Invitation.

To the Cooking Club let us invite, With invitation most polite.”

Hilda said, “How will we invite the children to join the Cooking Club?”

The Fairy Invitation waved a magic wand and there were the Invitations all neatly written in dainty little envelopes ready to take out.

The Invitations read,

“Hilda and Hans request the pleasure of your company on December 30th at four o’clock to form a Cooking Club.

40 Holland Avenue.

Tuesday, December fourth.”

Hilda put the invitations in her basket and said, “It is fine to wave a wand and have all the invitations ready. I am glad to meet you, Fairy Invitation.”

Fairy Invitation said,

“Don’t forget Flora and Fred.”

“Who are Flora and Fred?” asked Hil¬ da, but Fairy Invitation had gone.

“Tap, tap, tap,” sounded on the door and brother Hans stood there smiling. He had rapped just for fun.

Now, if you made sixteen guesses you could not imagine what were the first words he said,

“Our neighbor sent me on ahead To get a recipe for Brown Bread;

I left her busy at the tub;

Why don’t we form a COOKING CLUB?”

Hilda was delighted to think Brother Hans liked the idea of Cooking, too, and she said,

“For the Brown Bread rule we’ll look

In Mother’s Old-Fashioned Cook Book.”

They laughed, for Mother had put the rule in verse and it read,

“Good Health Brown Bread.

One quart of sour milk take, Measure it, make no mistake,

Of saleratus a tablespoon,

You will stir the mixture soon, Two-thirds pint of molasses pour, Be careful to not get any more,

A little salt and graham flour Add, and bake one and a half hours.”

Hans said, “‘How much flour do you add, and how much salt?”

Hilda said, “You put in flour until it stirs about as thick as a cake mixture, and you add just a pinch of salt, about a quarter of a teaspoonful. You pour it in three greased pans and bake it in a hot oven.”

Hans put the rule they copied in his pocket and Hilda put the invitations in one basket and hung it on her arm and she put the round, shining, gold florin in another basket and hung it on her other arm, and said she was ready to go to town.

Said Hans, “Excuse me, if I ask it, “What have you got in the other bas¬ ket?”

Hilda laughed and told Hans what had happened while he was out.

He said, “We will have a celebration, And ask Fairy Invitation.”

In the meantime the children were planning how they would make one, round, shining, gold florin go a long way in helping entertain their little guests. They said they could buy lemons for lem¬ onade and some crispy crackers to serve when they had the first meeting of the Cooking Club.

Hans looked like an old man with his trousers rolled up, and he wore a gay red velvet jacket and cap.

Hilda ran on to the grocery store and Hans dropped the invitations at every house they came to.

Now, wasn’t it astonishing that on that very day so many children in Holland thought it would be fun to form a Cook¬ ing Club, before they got their invita¬ tions, so when they got their invitations they were not at all surprised and said,

“We will reply and fall in line;

The Cooking Club idea is fine.”

Hilda and Hans met to go home and Hans said,

“Hilda, I’ll tell you what we’ll do,

We’ll form a Cooking Club of two; And while the children are on the way,

We can turn work into play.”

Hilda said, “That will be a fine idea.”

Hilda continued, “Just see how far I made my round, shining gold florin go. Just see all the supplies I have in my bas¬ ket. We must practice cooking before the other children come.”

Now wasn’t it funny that all over town the children said the same thing? They all wanted to practice cooking before the day came for the meeting of the Cooking Club.

Hans said, “It is such fun to plan things,” and Hilda said, “It is such fun to have happy things to think about.”

Fairy Invitation peeped in the window, singing-,

“I have learned now, to my sorrow, Many people have to borrow;

Prepare today for tomorrow,

So you will not have to borrow.”

Hilda and Hans laughed for that very day one neighbor had borrowed salt, and one neighbor had borrowed sugar, and one neighbor had sent to borrow the rule for Good Health Brown Bread.

Fairy Invitation sang again,

“Hilda and Hans, please make out a list Of kitchen things before they are missed.”

The children sat down at once and made out a list of things needed in the kitchen, and said, “We hope Fairy Invi¬ tation will call again.”

Chapter Two ANTICIPATION

A RHYMING RECIPE

Chapter 2 Anticipation A Rhyming Recipe

One day Hilda and Hans said, “Oh, Mother, we want to get ready for our Cooking Club.”

Mother said, “Some folks, alas!

Have only to turn on the gas;

But to cook if we desire,

We must build a kitchen fire.”

Hans said, “Let me get the kindling for the stove.”

Hilda said, “Let me get it, let me get it.”

Mother said,

“Careful workmen, I suppose, Think it best to wear old clothes.”

Hilda took the hint and put on her lit¬ tle red calico dress and her second best cap, and Hans put on his old suit with the patches on the trousers. He wore his second best cap, too, and the children got kindling and laid the fire in the cooking stove.

They put in first paper, then kindling, then wood.

They laid the fire entirely and then struck a match to light it.

At the door they met a new Fairy.

Said the Fairy, “How do you do?

Myself I introduce to you;

I hope you’ll like your fine vacation;

I am Fairy Anticipation.”

The children cried, “Oh, you cunning little Fairy, will you help us all day long?”

The Fairy said, “Just put on these glasses a minute and look through them, and I will show you wonderful things. I can make you enjoy things by seeing them a long way off.”

“Oh” and “Ah,” cried the children, “What a wonderful Fairy! What won¬ derful glasses you have to look through.”

Fairy Anticipation said, “Can’t you see a well set table and rows of happy faces? Can’t you see everything cooked well by the Tiny Tots? Can’t you see much fun coming for the Cooking Club?”

Hilda and Hans laughed merrily and said, “Do stay and help us with our cook¬ ing today.”

Said the Fairy, “There’s much to learn;

Open the dampers to make a fire burn.”

Hilda said, “What shall I do next?”

Hans said, “Please tell me what to do.”

Fairy Anticipation said,

“I am really glad you are wide awake; Do you mean to stew? Do you mean to bake?”

The children thought for a while and finally decided they would make some cookies, for the Fairy said,

“Ha, ha, I have traveled near and far, But here is an empty cookie jar.”

“Hurrah! hurrah!” cried the Twins.

“Do tell us how to begin. We want to make good cookies today.”

“If a prize for cookies you would win, Have everything ready to begin.

Even little cooks are able To have utensils on the table.”

“Prizes? utensils?” said the children in happy voices.

‘Til give a prize of mistletoe For the very best cookies you know; The utensils are things you use,

So fix the table if you choose.”

Hilda ran and got out the rolling board and rolling pin, and Hans got out four tin pans. Then, Hilda got a mixing bowl and spoon, and Hans got out the sugar and milk and so on.

Just as they were ready to read the Cookie Rule, Fairy Anticipation said,

“In Cooking Clubs each son and daugh¬ ter

Washes hands with soap and water.”

The children laughed and washed their hands and cleaned their little finger nails, and Hans read the cookie rule while Hilda put the things together.

A Cookie Rule.

Take one cup of sugar white,

Beat in a cup of shortening light; Cooking sets my heart a-flutter, (Shortening means the lard or but¬ ter.)

Take of sour milk half a cup,

One teaspoon soda, beat it all up; One half spoon vanilla and one egg put in,

(To roll them out you’ll soon be¬ gin;)

Add flour and work it in a ball, Then this direction last of all,

Roll them out as smooth as butter, Cut them with a cookie cutter.

To grease the pans we ’most forgot, Then bake them in an oven hot; One thing more before you stop, Sprinkle sugar on the top.

The children put a raisin in the center of each cookie, too.

Soon the children had four pans of cookies in the oven.

Fairy Anticipation said,

“Just think how good they are to eat, For cookies sweet are quite a treat.”

She suggested next that the children should wash all the dishes they had used, and wipe up the kitchen floor and put ev¬ erything in order while the cookies baked.

She got out a nice, clean dish towel her¬ self for them to lay the cookies out on up¬ on the table when they took them out of the oven. In twenty-five minutes the cookies were done and the children took them with a knife out of the pans and put them on the towel.

“Rap-a-tap,” sounded on the door. “Ting-a-ling,” sounded the telephone

and in trooped the children from far and near, Willie Why, and the Calico Girl, and Johnny-Jump-Up, and all the neigh¬ bors’ children came and those who could not come telephoned that they would be on hand next time.

Right then and there, the Tiny Tots formed their Cooking Club.

It was lucky, I do declare,

Two cookies a-piece and none to spare,

Then Hilda and Hans smiled and said,

“Where are the children, Flora and Fred?”

Willie Why said, “They are cute lit¬ tle twins and they live across the sea in America but they are coming to visit us some day.” He added, “I wonder why they do not come sooner?”

The Calico Girl said, “I will send them my invitation, and Johnny-Jump-Up jumped up to go before they had even a president for the new Cooking Club.

They decided to practice cooking a while and then meet and have a feast at the different houses.

Johnny-Jump-Up tossed up his cap and shouted,

“ ‘Tis more fun to cook than to rub and scrub,

Hurrah! hurrah! for the Cooking Club.”

The children made out a list of things they would practice making at home, and decided that, later on they would have a cooking contest.

Fairy Anticipation sang,

“Make your plans whatever you do,

Twill be something to look forward to,

Anticipation is lots of fun;

Come on, and get your cooking done.”

The children decided that they wanted to make Good Health Food and to cook things they could pack in a school room lunch.

Johnny-Jump-Up danced around and shouted,

“Three cheers for the Tiny Tots, we say;

Three cheers we give—we are off and away.”

The children skated merrily homeward and Hilda and Hans went clump, clump, clump, in their wooden shoes.

As they took off their shoes, they sang a little sleepy song to the tune of “Light¬ ly Row.”

“Wooden shoes, wooden shoes, Travel far to carry news,

If you choose, if you choose,

Wear some wooden shoes.

Wooden shoes suggest, you know, Many places nice to go;

Wooden shoes, wooden shoes, Chase away the blues.”

Hilda and Hans each put one shoe out¬ side the door, for it was Christmas Eve and St. Nicholas might call. They put a little hay in each shoe for his reindeer.

As they came through the hall, Hilda stood still for a minute.

Fairy Anticipation whispered some¬ thing to Hans and he hurried and kissed Hilda as she stood under the mistletoe.

The children went to sleep in their wee little beds in the wall and dreamed about St. Nicholas and his reindeer.

Fairy Anticipation was busy helping little children dream all over the world on Christmas Eve. Some children, in some countries, hung up stockings, and some children put their shoes outside the door waiting for presents.

Early next day when Hans woke up Hilda was already out of bed. She ran down stairs to find her wooden shoe.

Hans and Hilda were happy for their shoes were filled with candy, and cake, and nuts, and there was a mysterious package in each shoe.

They opened the mysterious packages and found the nicest little cookie cutters in the world. The cookie cutters were shaped like animals.

“Oh,” and “Ah,” cried the children. “We can make a cookie dog now and a ginger¬ bread horse and all kinds of cute animals with the new cutters.”

They were glad and gay and made a play Of cooking away on Christmas Day.

Fairy Anticipation said,

“Hilda and Hans, Hilda and Hans,

Be very careful to wash your hands, To be skillful cooks you mean,

So, do be careful to be clean.”

The Fairy added that the children might find another present in the parlor. They ran in and found a pretty red covered book with gilt letters upon it. The book was called, “The Tiny Tot’s Cook Book.” The children cried,

“We are happy, oh come and look, Hurrah! hurrah! for the wee Cook Book.”

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Chapter Three CO-OPERATION

GOOD HEALTH GINGER SNAPS

Chapter 3 Co-operation Good Health Ginger Snaps

Hilda and Hans wanted to use the fan¬ cy tin cookie cutters that Saint Nicholas had left for them, so mother suggested that they make some Good Health Gin¬ ger Snaps.

Hilda went to the little cupboard and said,

“As I see molasses on the shelf,

I can reach up and help myself.”

She put a pint of molasses on the stove to boil.

The butter jar was up on such a high shelf that Hans had to climb up on the table to reach it.

Hilda got out a bowl and spoon and Hans got out the rolling pin.

“Ho, ho, ho,” said the Rolling Pin, “You are not ready to begin,

Till everything at hand you see Required in the recipe.”

The children got out sugar, and gin¬ ger, and flour, and said,

“Our Cooking Club will be such fun,

To practice cooking we’ve begun.”

The kitchen table began to talk, and said,

“Get on aprons, for I suppose You don’t want to soil your clothes.”

Hilda looked down at her clean dress and Hans looked at his clean trousers. They ran to get out their aprons and ev¬ ery day caps.

The Tea Kettle sang merrily,

“Hear me bubble, bubble, bubble;

To empty ashes is some trouble.”

Hans took the hint and emptied the ashes and soon the fire burned merrily.

A merry voice then called,

“Ho, ho, for cooks with smiling face;

I hope you keep things in their place.”

The children knew it was a fairy voice but they looked all about and could not find the fairy. Was she hiding in the cup¬ board, or clock, or cookie-jar?”

The merry voice called again,

“At Christmas time you have vacation,

Meet the Fairy Co-Operation;

We give no heed to stormy weather;

Hurrah! hurrah! we work together.”

The children said, “You cunning- little Fairy, do come out and tell us how to put our ginger-snaps together.”

The Fairy did not come out but she sang distinctly,

“At Ginger-Snap making I often toil, Bring a pint of molasses to a boil; Then, before you take your ease,

Add a cup of butter, please,

A cup of brown sugar, too,

And a teaspoon of soda add, please do; A tablespoon of Ginger take,

Measure it—make no mistake;

Cook skillfully a prize to win,

Add flour enough to roll out thin.”

Hans and Hilda laughed and said, “It is fun to cook in this dear little kitchen with a Fairy to give us directions.”

“Roll out thin—roll out thin,” Reminded the Wooden Rolling-Pin.

The children used their cute little tin cutters and Hans cut out a dog and Hil¬ da cut out a cat; then Hans used his Squirrel cookie-cutter, and Hilda used her horse cookie-cutter, and soon they put their cute animal-shaped ginger-snaps into greased pans and placed them in the oven..

“Cooking is fun, cooking is fun;

Watch your oven until it’s done,”

reminded the Fairy who worked with them and continued,

“Hans and Hilda, take a turn;

Do not let your cooking burn.”

Hilda made up a little song while Hans watched the oven. She sang to the tune of “Lightly Row,” and Hans danced as best he could in his clumsy wooden shoes.

“Wooden shoes, wooden shoes, Travel far to spread the news; Wooden shoes, wooden shoes,

Dance well if they choose.

Clump, clump, clump, you hear them go,

Sometimes fast and sometimes slow; Wooden shoes, wooden shoes,

Carry pleasant news.”

A merry voice cried,

“I enjoy songs like these,

But don’t forget the dampers, please.”

Hilda saw her fire was going too hard so she closed up the dampers of the stove and Hans said, “Where are you hiding, little Fairy Co-Operation?”

The Fairy wanted to keep that secret but sang gayly,

“Your voice has a happy sound;

Turn the Ginger - Snap pans around.”

Hans turned the pans round in the oven so they would bake more evenly, and he said again, “Where are you hid¬ ing, you cute little Fairy?”

The Fairy answered,

“Ha, ha, ha, I dance and shout; Don’t forget to take them out, Cooking is really lots of fun;

Don’t forget when things get done.”

Soon the Ginger Snaps were all done and put out on a clean cloth on the table.

Hans said, “Hurrah! I am going out to play ball,” and Hilda said, “Hurrah! I am going out to skate.”

Fairy Co-Operation called,

“No, no, no, stop and think,

[Wash up the dishes in the sink.”

The children laughed merrily and said, “Where are you hiding? Won’t you come out just a minute?”

They washed up their dishes and looked high and low for the Fairy but they could not find her, though they often heard her little tinkling laugh.

They had just put everything in order and packed a basket of cookies to take to grandma when the postman came, and brought a letter from Flora and Fred.

The letter said,

“Dear Hilda and Hans,

We are jolly twins, too, and we will be happy to join your Cooking Club. We will soon come to Holland and, in the mean¬ time, we will practice making things in our own kitchen, and we hope the Fairies will help us.

Your loving friends,

Flora and Fred.”

“Do they have Fairies in America?” asked Hans.

Hilda said, “I believe there are Fairies everywhere all over the world.”

Fairy Co-Operation sang,

“Go out and play, go out and play, And enjoy your holiday;

Every child who is wise Takes some healthy exercise.”

Hans and Hilda went out to play, leav¬ ing the basket of Ginger Snaps ready for grandma on the shelf.

As a surprise, grandma came to sup¬ per.

Grandma said, “I wish I had some old-fashioned Ginger Snaps. I almost thought I smelled some cooking when I came in.”

Hilda and Hans said, “Since you ask it, Grandma, here is a little basket; These Ginger Snaps we think a treat; We hope you’ll find them good to eat.”

Grandma was so pleased that she said the next day she would send the Twins some fine big spoons with wooden han¬ dles, so they would not burn their hands when cooking hot things upon the stove.

She said,

“Your snaps are so good, without doubt, A little Fairy must be about.”

That night, Hilda called (to Hans, “I wonder where the Fairy is hiding.” Hans was already asleep, so Hilda crept down by herself into the neat, clean kitchen and called,

“Fairy, Fairy, where do you keep?

Fairy, Fairy, are you asleep?”

To her surprise, Fairy Co-Operation sang,

“I could have answered you before;

I’m dancing in the table drawer.”

Hilda opened the table drawer and Fairy Co-Operation danced lightly on top of the table singing,

“I am always happy—very,

I am the Co-Operation Fairy; Cookie-Cutters are such fun, Hurrah! hurrah! the cooking is done.”

Chapter Four ANNEXATION

COOKING CLUB CAKES

Chapter 4 Annexation

COOKING CLUB CAKES

Little Fairy Annexation Said, “Sometimes I cause vexation For many times I help myself To things from off the pantry shelf.”

Once upon a time, on the First of April, Hilda said to herself, “How can I play an April Fool joke on Hans?” and Hans was wondering at the same time if he could think of a joke to play on Hilda.

By and by, Hilda said,

“I will make some cakes with cotton in¬ side;

On the high shelf, these cakes I’ll hide.”

She made some nice little cakes, and in two of them put cotton, and when they were baked she set the two cakes on the shelf.

The Fairy talked to her every little while and before she mixed up her little cakes fairly shouted,

“Clean your finger nails, every one, And wash before the task’s begun.”

This is the way Hilda made her little cakes .

She took one cup of sugar and worked one tablespoon of butter into it with her clean little hands. Hilda then took three eggs, well beaten, and added to her sugar and butter one and a half cups of flour, a heaping teaspoon of Baking Pow¬ der and half a cup of milk, then,

She beat and beat with all her might,

To make her cake come smooth and light.

She greased two dozen little pans and dropped in her cakes and baked them in a hot oven. She only put a bit of cotton in two of the cakes for an April Fool joke, of course. The rest of the little cakes were ready to serve for tea.

Little Hans had been reading about

The “Knave of Hearts who stole some tarts.”

The cakes, when they were done and put on the shelf, looked very like tarts to him, so he said to himself, “I will play a joke on Hilda this April Fool day and take one of the cakes and eat it, and she will wonder where it has gone.”

Hilda peeped at him from behind the door.

My, what a face he made when he bit into the cotton.

Hilda shouted, “April Fool.”

Mother said, “Your cakes are so good you can invite the Tiny Tots to supper and serve ice cream, too.

Then mother said, “Tiny Tots are able To learn to set a supper table.”

She was called away, but the Fairy helped them and sang cute little jingles that you or I would like to hear. She sang,

“Set the supper table right;

Put on a clean cloth smooth and white.”

The children put on a clean cloth and the Fairy cried,

“For my directions, now please wait, Knife at right, fork at left of plate; The spoon in front will look quite well, Now, other useful things I’ll tell.

A napkin on your plate we see,

A glass stands to the right we agree; In the centre of your table Place a bouquet, if you’re able.”

The children had a good-looking sup¬ per table and the Fairy sang,

“What will you serve? It is time to look;

You had better study the old Cook Book.”

Hilda and Hans studied the old Cook Book and they made some cute cards to put beside their little guests’ plates.

On each card they drew a picture of a little open or closed umbrella because it was to be an April supper party, and in

April you never knew whether you would use your umbrella open or closed.

They wrote the children’s names upon the cards and put one card at each plate.

They invited Willie Why, and Bennie- Behind-Hand, and Johnny-Jump-Up, and Sunny Sue, and Billy Brag - , and the Calico Girl and many other American children who were visiting in Holland.

The children came dancing in, shout¬ ing,

“Hurrah! hurrah for the Tiny Tots! Here is a bunch of forget-me-nots.”

They gave Hilda and Hans a big bunch of forget-me-nots they had bought at the Florist’s.

At supper the Fairy sang,

“Your Cooking Club, I really think, Should have a motto written in ink.”

Willie Why asked, “Why should we have a motto at all?”

Johnny Jump-Up said, “We might say ‘Honesty is the best Policy.’ ” Sunny Sue suggested, “We might say, ‘A New Broom Sweeps Clean.’ ”

The children suggested one thing and another for a motto, but it was Bennie Behind-Hand at last who said, “Waste Not, Want Not,” and they all thought that was a good and useful motto.

The Fairy sang,

“That is a motto that pleases me, Because it suggests Thrift, you see.”

Hilda told about her playing an April Fool joke on Hans when the cakes were passed and the children laughed.

After supper they played a game called, “Guess What.”

One child began to tell a story and when she stopped any child supplied the missing word. They suggested for miss¬ ing words any kitchen article, and they had a merry time.

This is the way the story looked with the missing words.

One day the Cook went into the-

and put the —kettle on the stove. She put on a-by the tea-.

Soon the water boiled over in the tea- -and spilled on the floor.

She took a-to sweep up the water.

She stirred the soup in the-with a

-. Then she took the-off the stove

and began to wash the-.

The cat spilled his-of milk on the

floor and the cook took a — and wiped it up. She said, “Will I never get my-

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washed? Will I never get my floor-

up with my-or mop?”

The children had so much fun with this story that they wrote it on cards and passed it out and wrote in the words. They made so many funny mistakes in putting in the word ‘tea-kettle' for the word ‘broom,' for instance, that the stor¬ ies were funny to read. Can you supply the missing words?