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Dried Apples

by James McIntyre

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Lines suggested by examining the fruit evaporator at Mt. Elgin.
We fear to say, and yet we must, Dried apples once were full of dust, And you all know it is no joke. Saturate with tobacco smoke, And the hole where string did go through Was nest for animalcule, And collected the kitchen steam. But process now is sweet and clean, Viewed with pleasure by spectator, Work of the evaporator.

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