Show them molasses Mo lasset the note iron from the tha doctors wire 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 ot of ours told us that while studying la in kentucky his host remarked to him at breakfast wont you have some of these molasses mola ases these are tree molasses this use of the plural la Is also to be found among the natives of new england I 1 heard it applied to molasses but my father remembers as a boy hearing an old new england woman speak of making a few broth david balfourd Bal tours fours dreadful uncle in uses the plural form la in speaking of par ritch fine food grand food par ritch he says to david in this case as in that of broth the excuse tor for the final letter a as in molasses is lacking and causes me some perplexity plex ity sap sugar Is sometimes heard in now new england eagland doston boston her lid idd J |