Note 4 — THE MISERLY OLD WOMAN.1
Reading edition
Though the mother-in-law was so miserly, there was good provision of everything in the store-closet; and so with the false keys she took flour and lard and ham, and they had plenty of everything. One day she had made a delicious cake of curdled sheep’s milk,4 and she gave a woman a halfpenny to take it to the baker’s to bake, saying—