`` Now , Sally , take your basket and go to market ; here is the list of things I want for dinner , '' said Mrs. Jo , giving her a bit of paper when the dishes were all in order . `` Where is the market ? '' asked Daisy , thinking that the new play got more and more interesting every minute . `` Asia is the market . '' Away went Sally , causing another stir in the schoolroom as she passed the door in her new costume , and whispered to Demi , with a face full of delight , `` It 's a perfectly splendid play ! '' Old Asia enjoyed the joke as much as Daisy , and laughed jollily as the little girl came flying into the room with her cap all on one side , the lids of her basket rattling like castanets and looking like a very crazy little cook . `` Mrs. Aunt Jo wants these things , and I must have them right away , '' said Daisy , importantly . `` Let 's see , honey ; here 's two pounds of steak , potatoes , squash , apples , bread , and butter . The meat ai n't come yet ; when it does I 'll send it up . The other things are all handy . '' Then Asia packed one potato , one apple , a bit of squash , a little pat of butter , and a roll , into the basket , telling Sally to be on the watch for the butcher 's boy , because he sometimes played tricks . `` Who is he ? '' and Daisy hoped it would be Demi . `` You 'll see , '' was all Asia would say ; and Sally went off in great spirits , singing a verse from dear Mary Howitt 's sweet story in rhyme : `` Away went little Mabel , With the wheaten cake so fine , The new-made pot of butter , And the little flask of wine . '' `` Put everything but the apple into the store-closet for the present , '' said Mrs. Jo , when the cook got home . There was a cupboard under the middle shelf , and on opening the door fresh delights appeared . One half was evidently the cellar , for wood , coal , and kindlings were piled there . The other half was full of little jars , boxes , and all sorts of droll contrivances for holding small quantities of flour , meal , sugar , salt , and other household stores . A pot of jam was there , a little tin box of gingerbread , a cologne bottle full of currant wine , and a tiny canister of tea . But the crowning charm was two doll 's pans of new milk , with cream actually rising on it , and a wee skimmer all ready to skim it with .
XXXXX clasped her hands at this delicious spectacle , and wanted to skim it immediately .
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