Lucretia P. Hale
The Peterkin Papers
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(IDB Productions July 6, 2019)
The Peterkin Papers
THE LADY WHO PUT SALT IN HER COFFEE.
This was Mrs. Peterkin. It was a mistake. She had poured out a
delicious cup of coffee, and, just as she was helping herself to
cream, she found she had put in salt instead of sugar! It tasted bad.
What should she do? Of course she couldn't drink the coffee; so she
called in the family, for she was sitting at a late breakfast all
alone. The family came in; they all tasted, and looked, and wondered
what should be done, and all sat down to think.
At last Agamemnon, who had been to college, said, "Why don't we go
over and ask the advice of the chemist?" (For the chemist lived over
the way, and was a very wise man.)
Mrs. Peterkin said, "Yes," and Mr. Peterkin said, "Very well," and all
the children said they would go too. So the little boys put on their
india-rubber boots, and over they went.
Now the chemist was just trying to find out something which should
turn everything it touched into gold; and he had a large glass bottle
into which he put all kinds of gold and silver, and many other
valuable things, and melted them all up over the fire, till he had
almost found what he wanted. He could turn things into almost gold.
But just now he had used up all the gold that he had round the house,
and gold was high. He had used up his wife's gold thimble and his
great-grandfather's gold-bowed spectacles; and he had melted up the
gold head of his great-great-grandfather's cane; and, just as the
Peterkin family came in, he was down on his knees before his wife,
asking her to let him have her wedding-ring to melt up with all the
rest, because this time he knew he should succeed, and should be able
to turn everything into gold; and then she could have a new
wedding-ring of diamond
THE LADY WHO PUT SALT IN HER COFFEE.
This was Mrs. Peterkin. It was a mistake. She had poured out a
delicious cup of coffee, and, just as she was helping herself to
cream, she found she had put in salt instead of sugar! It tasted bad.
What should she do? Of course she couldn't drink the coffee; so she
called in the family, for she was sitting at a late breakfast all
alone. The family came in; they all tasted, and looked, and wondered
what should be done, and all sat down to think.
At last Agamemnon, who had been to college, said, "Why don't we go
over and ask the advice of the chemist?" (For the chemist lived over
the way, and was a very wise man.)
Mrs. Peterkin said, "Yes," and Mr. Peterkin said, "Very well," and all
the children said they would go too. So the little boys put on their
india-rubber boots, and over they went.
Now the chemist was just trying to find out something which should
turn everything it touched into gold; and he had a large glass bottle
into which he put all kinds of gold and silver, and many other
valuable things, and melted them all up over the fire, till he had
almost found what he wanted. He could turn things into almost gold.
But just now he had used up all the gold that he had round the house,
and gold was high. He had used up his wife's gold thimble and his
great-grandfather's gold-bowed spectacles; and he had melted up the
gold head of his great-great-grandfather's cane; and, just as the
Peterkin family came in, he was down on his knees before his wife,
asking her to let him have her wedding-ring to melt up with all the
rest, because this time he knew he should succeed, and should be able
to turn everything into gold; and then she could have a new
wedding-ring of diamond
- ISBN
- 1776767349 / 9781776767342
- Weight
- 3.5 oz.
- Dimensions
- 7.5 x 5.5 in.
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