Show them thera molasses T the he note from the doctor doctors s wife giving the term sap molasses to maple reminds me ot of a somewhat similar designation used in the south many years ago A naturalist friend of ours told us that while studying in kentucky his host remarked to him at breakfast won wont t you have some ot of these molas molasses sesT these are trea tree molasses this use ot of the plural is also to be found among the natives of new england I 1 haven t heard it applied to molasses but my father remembers as a boy hearing an old new england 1 woman speak of making a few broth david balfour a dreadful uncle in uses the plural form in speaking of par ritch they re fine food they re grand food par ritch he says to david in this case aa as in that of broth the excuse for the final letter s as in molasses is lacking and causes me some per sap sugar is sometimes heard in new england boston doston herald |