Prudy Keeping House

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(128 128 128 1)>Right before Christmas Aunt Madge was called away to tend to her ill husband leaving the four Parlins and Cliffords alone.  </span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(128 128 128 1)>May I cook the dinners and not ask Mrs. Fixfax? begged Prudy. Because I really do know a great deal Aunt Madge. You'd be surprised! I can cook cake and pie and biscuit and three kinds of pudding. Please this once let me manage things just as I want to.  </span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(128 128 128 1)>Just as </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(128 128 128 1)>we</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(128 128 128 1)> want to you mean said Dotty. I can make gingerbread as well as you can.  </span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(128 128 128 1)>And I shaked a table-cloth once put in Flyaway.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(128 128 128 1)>Aunt Madge only smiled at this.</span></p>