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with your bread, and the butter and milk from the cow. You
can’t have an egg without a hen to lay it, you know.”

‘But horses?” Edith went on: ‘I don’t want a horse at
breakfast-time. Why did you draw so many?”

“You will do without bread at your breakfast then 2” said

 

Cousin Catherine. ‘‘ You cannot have bread unless the land is
ploughed, the corn carried to and from the mill. How is this

to be done if there are no horses?”
“But I saw them ploughing the flat field by the church

with a steam engine,” said Edith.