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Show i "Them Molasses." Tho note from "Tho Doctor's Wlfo," giving tho term "sap molasses" to ma-plo ma-plo sirup, Tomlnds mo of a somewhat similar designation used In tho South many years ago. A naturalist friend of ours told us that whilo Btudying In Kentucky his host romarkod to him at breakfast, "Won't you havo somo ot theso molasses? Theso aro treo molasses." mo-lasses." This uso ot tho plUral Is also to be found among tho natives of Now England. I haven't heard it applied to molasses, but my father remembers as a boy hearing an old Now England woman speak of making "a fow broth." David Balfour's droadful undo in "Kidnaped" uses tho plural form in speaking ot "parrltch." "Thoy'ro flno, halosomo food, thoy'ro grand food, parritch," ho says to David. In this case, as in that of broth, tho excuse (or tho final lottor "a" as in molasses Is lacking and causes mo somo perplexity. per-plexity. "Sap BUgar" is Bomotimos heard In Now England. Boston Herald. |