Socks and Flocks 



muffin flock. Toothsome "crowns" 

 or "racks" and rich, thick, easy- 

 cutting saddles or loins of mutton do 

 not grow on goats or starving sheep. 



Good mother's milk must flow in 

 plenty before the epicure may call 

 for "baby lamb." Look at a Dorset 

 matron's generous stores, or contem- 

 plate the broad acres of good green 

 rape or cabbages or roots and the 

 bags of cake, and even "sweets," used 

 in the ration where prime product is 

 in the making, and you will realize 

 the labor and expense that lies behind 

 the butcher's block and complain no 

 more of cost. 



I don't suppose any of you knitters 

 have been so wildly excited over this 

 prosy talk that you have dropped any 

 stitches. You have knit one, slipped 

 one, purled and narrowed on in the 

 same good old way, and how the socks 

 have grown! 



Did you ever eat good mutton off 

 the steaming copper-covered cart at 



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