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ful like to ask what it's named for, but I can't quite 

 fetch myself to. One thing's certain, that's a proper 

 smart woman help of Evan's that they fetched over, 

 if she is English. Lot, she never made such cake, 

 let alone bein' so liberal with her victuals." 



The fame of the pistache cake spread. 



I was called upon to furnish the recipe, which was 

 easily obtained, but called for so many ingredients 

 and such skill in making that it impressed them as a 

 species of culinary mathematics. It was decided by 

 the Emporium that we were really well to do, and 

 had not come to live at home because Evan was 

 poor, that he had no intention of peddling vege- 

 tables, but owned a whole block of granite stores in 

 the city, and merely went to town to collect his 

 rents. 



Upon such a trifle as the making and liberal 

 distribution of cake does country reputation often 

 hang, while in the city diamond stomachers, an 

 opera box, a yacht, or an automobile would not 

 reflect half so much glory. 



After the tea was quite over, father and Evan 

 disappeared together, and I found them sitting at 

 the pantry table before a deliciously broiled porter- 

 house steak and dish of crisp potatoes, which Martha 

 Corkle herself was serving. As I gave her a glance 



