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'Well, it was simple enough. They gave the pancake plenty of air while it was cooking. When the wife wanted to turn the pancake over, she tossed it up the chimney and then ran outside quick with the frying-pan and caught it before it reached the ground. Then she did the other side and when it was finished it was as light as the air itself.' Nipper looked at me and then at Father, whose face was still stern.
I looked at him and said to Father: 'You didn't tell us how they put the currants in, Pa.' Father couldn't answer through keeping a straight face, but Arthur said: 'Didn't you know? They shot the currants in with a pellet gun as the pancake was coming down!' In the middle of the laughing the door of the scullery opened and someone called out: 'What's going on?' A small man in a light mackintosh and peak cap, with a brown paper parcel under his arm, came into the room. He looked round and asked, 'Whose birthday?' 'Sit down, Billy. Get Mr Charles a cup of tea, Dinah.' It was Billy Charles, the Yeastman; he came every Thursday bringing the yeast for the bread and cake baking. He sat in a chair by the fire and with a tired hand pushed his cap to the back of his head. His neck was sunk in his shoulders and his eyes were puffed and inflamed. He looked round at us. 'You've got a houseful here and no mistake. You won't half be rich when they all start working.' He stirred his cup of tea and Dinah offered him a pancake; he shook his head..See the full content of this document
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Morning Serial ; Voices of the Children
'But you must taste the pancakes.' ' No, nothing to eat, on principle.'...
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