| Show WHIT TIERS CABBAGE I 1 the condition tt it was wan la in when the venerable poet planted it did you ever hear bear the story of whittier cr and the cabbage asked an old friend yesterday it may may have been told before but it is worth wirth repeating P eltin 0 now ile he hates the odor of cabbage cabba gp like most sensible men and has it a cordial horror of the right smell in the wrong place as henry hen ry james calls the fra granco rance of a dinner in the hallway one day however a cabbage ba bage e was cooked at the oak knoll and most in 0 s t of it was left over in deference to her 1 ier cousins ol factories the mistress of the house directed her cook to put t the lie cold cabbage on the top shelf in the pantry until the next day in tile the course of the afternoon mr whittier was seen digging 0 in ili the garden aa r A member of the handly family asked him what lie he was going to do but lie put her air with a 1 l mer merry ry twinkle in his eyes when in tile the course of household events the cook sought the cabbage bage 0 it was ft gone mone mr whittier had traced it to its eyrie he had climbed up and lad borne it away in ill triumph and defiance of domestic economy hall had buried it in ili the garden I 1 tell the story is as it was told to me said his friend call it how tile the poet planted a cabbage boiled coon boilon advertiser ver tiser liser |
