Did you ever hear of such a thing? Emmy can't explain it unless it's
due to the shiftless streak in all the Smiths.
"Agnes Hooper's crab-apple jell is about all gone and here it's hardly
cool yet. Those boys of hers just want to live on crab-apple jell and
Aggie says she's got to the end of her strength and patience, that
Charlie'd better pull up and move out among the Mormons where he could
have a couple of more wives to help keep those boys filled up.
"Jennie Burton's sauerkraut isn't going to keep and hasn't turned out
well, she thinks. Fremy Stockton says it's because she forgot to put
in a little mite of sugar and altogether too much salt.
"Grace Cook's husband bought a whole pig from some farmer Bloomingdale
way, thinking it was going to be good and cold by this time. And Grace
has got up at four o'clock every morning for a week and stayed up till
midnight, trying to get that pig out of sight. She's rendered lard and
made sausage and salted and smoked meat till every crock is full.
Yesterday she was making head cheese, sick to her stomach and crying
because there were still the four feet to cook up, and she said she
didn't know how to cook them and that each one looked to her about as
big as the kitchen stove.
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