The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1878-08-07
cooking done any where else in this

! cooking done any where else in this
country"
"sDig the dinnern cooking Ion 1
farm!' What does he mean?" thought
Tommy; but he dare not to ask
i The giant put Tommy on his shoulders
! again, and away they went
81 think that mince- pie must be ripe,
aid the giant.
"WAat" shrieked Tommy, right into
the giants ear; for he sat close by it.
81 say the minco-pie must be ripe, and
were going out to the patch to see.'
Cooking ON farm -digging the
dinner!- mince-pie patch? Tommy was
so astonished that he could not utter q
word. And sure enough they came to a
garden patch of mince pie; the crust was
turning rich brown under the sun and
the edges were all scalloped just as they
are on the pies at home. The giant took
down silver spade that hung on tree
near at hand-Which Tommy noticed
was full of jelly tarts, just ripening. and
had two or three kinds of cake grated
on it besides---and cut out a big piece OF
the pie; he said the glass wagon would
come along and get it. But before he
went on he pulled a rasin out OF the pie
and gave it to Tommy to eat; it was as
big as Tommys fist. 1.s..a. l;fs-ss
''I'm taking the wrong end of my din
ner first" said the giant: swell go and
see how the soup tastes. I haven't looked
after the soups this year as ought to
have done, and I'm afraid the crop is
going to be poor" A crop of soups
How queer, Tommy thought, but he did
not dare to ask any more questions.
Really I'm afraid to tell you all the
strange things Tommy saw, because you
may think this story is not true. But
! where do you think they found the soups2
In big reservoirs like that one on FIFTH
Avenue, and each reservoir held differ
ent kind of soup The reservoir nearest
to them held black bean soup, and very
black it looked; and the next held pea
soup, which was of pretty dark green;
and the one beyond was of tomato soup,
and very red and bright it was. All the
reservoirs we're of the most beautiful
china; each was quarter of a mile long
and 8 quarter of mile vide, and each of
them was as clean as one of your mothers
plates.
"Now for tine fish, said the giant, and
he stepped over to pond, where they had
no sooner appeared than the fish came
swimming up to the shore. They seemed
anxious to be caught, and what IS more,
they were all cooked. When Tommy
looked closer he saw that what he had
thought to be the water they were swim
ming in was lake of sauce. Finally the
giant picked out handsome salmon
trout, that was nicely cooked and beauti-
fully trimmed with green leaves and slices
OF hard boiled egg, and evidently prided
himself very much on his appearance.
The roast beef, the giant said, they
would get at the beef garden near the
house, but now they must look after the
vegetables. So he dug up few boiled
potatoes that were about as big as pump
kins, and pulled some shocking hot ears
OF corn off some stalks that were as tall |
as the treee Tommy was used to, and
pulled up some parsnsps that fell apart
IN slices as soon as they came up, and |
showed that each slice was nicely fried
then he picked some baked apples from
one tree and some picked peaches from
another.
Then, after he had got half a dozen
Charlotte-Russes from the dollhouse, he
said, Now We'll go to the ice-cream
pondn' "To the what?" SCREENED Tommy
into giants ear, but he was told to wait
and see. Presently they found a boat
AID got in. They sailed along till they
came to what seemed to Tommy to he
great icebergs of all sorts ofcolors; some
were white and some pink and some
green, and some were hundred feet
high. 1t kept growing colder and cold
er, and poor Tommy shivered very much
Meanwhile the giant was getting very
angry, and at last he broke out into a
that chocolate cream2'
Then Tommy knew all these icebergs
were made OF ice cream, and it seemed
so funny that he could not help laughing,
though the giants anger frightened him,
at that the giant was still more vexed,
and said Tommy shouldn't have any ice
cream at dinner. ... ,r.-,. .. -. /
But the list Of places where they went
is getting too long. There Yves sugar
barn, where they got sugar for the giants
coffee, where there were great bins of
brown sugar with wooden shovels in
them, and great bins Of white sugar with
silver shovels in them sugar, everywhere
There were big cribs Of macaroni: the
places where they kept the pepper were
half as high as the sugar barn; there were
bonbon bushes, on which the candy grew
in beautiful little boxes, each tied up
with a pretty ribbon there were bushes
filled with nuts, each bunch Of a different
kind, and on each bunch there grew lit
tie nut-cracker: There was knife and
fork tree too, that bore knives and forks
Of all kinds and sizes; and there was
spoon bush, so full that when the wind
swayed it all the spoons tingled together.
Whenever the giant needed new knife
or spoon, you see he only had to pick one.
There were plants whose cup-like flowers
were filled with strawberry jam; there
were garden patches of all kinds of pie,
and big tank Of apple sauce; there wers
gum-drop vines; whole fields full of bread |
growing on stalks, and half, dozen lit
tie orchards Of different kinds of cake.
and a.many other things about which
there is no space to tell you. fsI1
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