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food, as it can have no recourse to maternal udders. 

 The popular saying has perfectly caught the strict 

 resemblance : they call a drink prepared with the yolk 

 of an egg, 'hen's milk/ " 



' * That is what Mother Ambroisine makes me take 

 when I cough in the winter, " said Emile. 



"The delicious beverage that Mother Ambroisine 

 gives you when you have a cold is very properly 

 called 'hen's milk,' since it is made with the equiva- 

 lent of milk ; that is to say, the yolk of an egg. ' ' 



