The Two Little Cooks

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Two Little Cooks by Laura E. Richards. There was
once a little he cook, the prettiest little he cook
that was ever seen. His eyes were as dark as
black currants, and his cheeks were as pink as the
cochineal he put in his best frosting, and his skin
was as white as the finest pastry flower. As for
his hair, it was exactly the color of barley sugar,

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And I hope you know what a pleasant color that is.
He wore a snowy cap and apron, and always had
a long wooden spoon hanging from his girdle. He was
the very best cook that ever lived, for he never
cooked anything that was not good jam all kinds, and
little round plumcakes with pink and white frosting, and kisses,

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and lemon pie, and floating island, and wine jelly and
strawberry cream, and dear little three cornered raspberry tarts and
oranges cut into baskets and filled with whipped cream. Although
there was no end to the good things this little
he cook used to make. He made don't nuts too,
And what do you think? One day when he was

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making doughnuts, he happened to look out of the window,
and he saw walking by a little she cook, as
pretty as a pink rose, and with a cap and
apron just exactly like his. So the little he cook
ran to the door and said, pretty little she cook,
won't you come in? And the pretty little she cook said,

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thank you kindly, sir. So she came in, and he
made her sit down on the dresser, and then he
bought her some mulligatawny soup in a little china bowl
with the coverall painted with butterflies, three oyster patties the
best you ever saw, a fat little quail on toast
with mashed potatoes and gravy, a mince turnover, and a

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lemon tart, a glass of orange jelly, a saucer of
ice cream, and lots of macaroons. And when the little
sea cook had eaten all these things, the little he
cook said to her, can you cook as well as that?
Just as well? But no better, answered the little she cook.

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Was there anything that could have been done better? He asked, yes.
The piece of toast under the quail was darker on
one side than the other. You are right, said the
little he cook. None but a first class cook would
have observed it. Will you marry me? We will cook together,
and I feel sure we shall be happy. That I

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will with all my heart, said the little she cook.
But who will marry us? Just at that minute, who
should come by but a fat priest to buy a
three cornered raspberry tart. If you will marry me to
this little she cook, said the little he cook. You
shall have the tart for nothing. That will I with

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all my heart, said the fat priest. But where is
the ring to marry you with? Then the little he
cook turned round and round and round three times, thinking
what he should do, for he had no ring. After
the third turn, his eye fell upon the doughnuts that
he had been making, and then he knew what to do.

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He made a little ball of dough and then he
patted it flat, and then he took the little she
cook's finger and poked it right through the middle of
a doughnut. And then he dropped the doughnut into the
frying pan. And when it was done, it was the
most beautiful gold brown color that ever was seen. And
as soon as it was cool, the little he cook

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put it on the little she cook's finger, which, of
course it fitted perfectly, and the fat priest married the two,
and they filled his hat with doughnuts and his pockets
with buns and cocoanut cakes. And that was a very
good day for the fat priest. And the little he
cook and the little she cook lived together in perfect
happiness ever afterward, both stirring the soup at once and

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never quarreling. And they always made hole in their doughnuts
in remembrance of their wedding day, and so everyone else
has made them ever since. End of the Two Little
Cooks by Laura E. Richards