How To Preserve Children - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1/2 doz. children in large grassy field
2 or 3 small dogs
a pinch of brook and some small pebbles

Preparation

First, use care and get one, not too young, but tender and a healthy growth.
Make your selection carefully and let it be final. Otherwise they will not keep.
Like wine they improve with age.
Do not pickle or put in hot water.
This makes them sour.
Prepare as follows:
sweeten with smiles according to variety.
The sour, bitter kind are improved by a pinch of salt of common sense.
Spice with patience.
Wrap well in a mantle of charity.
Preserve over a good fire of steady devotion.
Serve with peaches and cream.
The poorest varieties may be improved by this process and kept for years in any climate.