The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 8, Issue 1 (May 1, 1933)

A Backwoods Story

A Backwoods Story.

Two old settlers—confirmed bachelors—sat in the backwoods. The conversation drifted from politics to cooking.

“I got one o' them there cookery books once, but I never could do nothin' with it,” said one.

“Too much fancy work in it?” asked the other.

“You've hit it. Every one of them recipes began in the same way: ‘Take a clean dish’— and that settled me.”

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