A Summer in a Canyon: A California StoryWiggin, Kate Douglas Smith
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A Summer in a Canyon: A California Story
Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith
California -- Fiction
This was the bill of fare arranged by Bell and Geoffrey, and written on
the reverse side of the dinner-cards
DINNER À LA MOTHER GOOSE.
CAMP CHAPARRAL.
August 15, 18—.
* * * * *
‘Come with a whoop, come with a call;
Come with a good will, or not at all.’
* * * * *
‘_VICTUALS AND DRINK_.’
BEAN SOUP.
‘She gave them some broth, she gave them some bread.’
SALT CODFISH.
‘You shall have a fishy
In a little dishy.’
ROAST MUTTON À LA VENISON.
‘Dear sensibility, O la!
I heard a little lamb cry ba-a!’
POTATOES IN JACKETS.
‘The butcher, the baker, the candlestick-maker,
All jumped out of a roasted potato.’
STEWED BEANS.
‘You, nor I, nor nobody knows,
Where oats, peas, beans, and barley grows.’
CHICKEN AND BEEF SANDWICHES.
‘Hickety, pickety, my pretty hen
Laid good eggs for gentlemen.’
‘Taffy was a Welshman, Taffy was a thief,
Taffy came to my house and stole a piece of beef.’
LEMON PIE.
‘A pie sat on a pear-tree.’
PLUM TARTS.
‘The Queen of Hearts, she made some tarts,
All on a summer’s day.’
FRUIT, NUTS, AND RAISINS.
‘You shall have an apple,
You shall have a plum.’
‘I had a little nut-tree, nothing would it bear
But a silver nutmeg and a golden pear.’
BREAD AND CHEESE.
‘When I was a bachelor I lived by myself,
And all the bread and cheese I got I put upon the shelf.’
COFFEE AND LEMONADE.
‘One, two, three, how good you be!
I love coffee and Billy loves tea.’
‘Oranges and lemons,
Says the bell of St. Clemen’s.’
* * * * *
‘What they ate I can’t tell,
But ’tis known very well
That none of the party grew fat.’
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