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Excerpt from Sketches: The New Cook; The Old Maids' Temperance Meeting; Miss. Squash From Squashville Sally. - The new cook. A white girl, apparently eighteen years old. Costumes - Mrs. Farmer wears a plain every-day dress and white apron. Sally wears a plain calico dress, apron and sunbonnet. Scene - Kitchen in a country home, furnished with stove, With fire represented, table, chair, broom, book with the words 'how to Cook Things written on back in large print. Necessary cooking utensils, etc. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.