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Show "Them Molasses." The note from "The Doctor's Wife,'" giving the term "sap molasses" to magpie mag-pie sirup, reminds me of a somewhat, similar designation used In the South many years ago. A naturalist friend: of ours told us that while studying la. Kentucky his host remarked to him at breakfast, "Won't you have some of. these molasses? These are tree molasses." mo-lasses." This use of the plural is also-to also-to be found among the natives of New England. I haven't heard it applied to molasses, but my father remembers-as remembers-as a boy hearing an old New England, woman speak of making "a few broth."" David Balfour's dreadful uncle la "Kidnaped" uses the plural form ia speaking of "parritch." "They're fine,, balesome food, they're grand food,, parritch," he says to David. In this-case, this-case, as in that of broth, the excuse for the final letter "s" as in molassea Is lacking and causes me some perplexity. per-plexity. "Sap sugar" is sometimes-heard sometimes-heard In New England. Boston Her-Ud. |