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and puts them in the cellar.
Yes the donuts are homemade. Fried in Suet; that’s the choice fat from beef.
You have to go to the
toilet? 
O.K.
slip into your coat and overshoes and lets go.
The backhouse (sometimes known as the chick-sale, privy or outhouse) is
about one hundred feet northwest of the house. Yes, it is cold out here and the
wind is sharp.
Boy! Some one left the
door open!
I’ll strike a match
and you can brush the snow off and locate the catalog.
You have bib overalls
on? Well, here, I’ll hold your
coat. Boy, I’m freezing!
You think that page was
a colored one? Could
be. Here’s your coat lets get
back in where its warm.
We will sleep upstairs.
There is a register in the ceiling over the stove to let heat into the
upstairs rooms. This helps take the
chill off. We will soon be warm because
the bed has a big feather bed on it and lots of quilts.
We will undress down to our long johns and jump into bed, sink into five or six inches of feathers and we’ll soon be warm