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The family that I stayed with were from Yorkshire, they had one daughter of their own, a girl about three years old called Prudence. I remember Mrs Henderson was an excellent cook, because all the meals were first class. Rabbit Pie was often cooked, and also she did all her own baking, not only bread, but also she baked what I would now call, Fruit Loaves. There was as much fruit to eat as you wanted, not only that, but all the apples and pears were kept next door in what they called the Bothy. It had garden tools, and vegetables stored on the ground floor, and upstairs were lots of wooden racks where the apples and pears were stored, each rack had the name of the fruit it contained, and all I had to do was choose which variety I wished to try. Friday night was bath night, and a huge log fire would be blazing in the Bothy, the bath, a large galvanised one, would be in front of the fire filled with hot water, ready to jump into. The only job that I had to do, was saw up the logs that went onto the fire.

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