Download or read book The Gentle Art of Cooking Wives (Classic Reprint) written by Elizabeth Strong Worthington and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-08-24 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Gentle Art of Cooking Wives English nursery song - 'come, ducky, come and be killed.' Now it will be, 'come, ducky, come and be cooked.' I move that Congress be urged to enact a law adopting that phrase as the only legal form of proposal. Then if any little goose accepts she knows what to expect, and is not caught up and fried without foreknowledge. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.