Brown Bread from a Colonial Oven

by Blanche Edith Baughan

BROWN BREAD
FROM A COLONIAL OVEN

“O for the real things—for the lake that was not salt,
for the streamlet that flowed from snows” (p. 87).

Frontispiece

BROWN BREAD
FROM A COLONIAL OVEN

BEING SKETCHES OF UP-COUNTRY LIFE IN NEW ZEALAND

BY
B. E. BAUGHAN
AUTHOR OF “SHINGLE-SHORT,” “THE FINEST WALK IN THE WORLD,” ETC.

With Illustrations by
DAGMAR HUIE

WHITCOMBE AND TOMBS, LIMITED
ADDLE HILL, CARTER LANE, LONDON
CHRISTCHURCH, WELLINGTON AND DUNEDIN, N.Z.
LITTLE COLLINS STREET, MELBOURNE

PRINTED BY
HAZELL, WATSON AND VINEY, LD.,
LONDON AND AYLESBURY.

Contents

Preface (not in original TOC)		v
I
		Page
Pipi on the Prowl		1
II
Grandmother Speaks		15
III
Aboard a Coasting Schooner		34
IV
Café au Lait		79
V
Spring in Autumn		98
VI
An Early Morning Walk (North Island)		114
VII
An Active Family		125
VIII
Red and Yellow and Ripe		145
IX
The Mountain Track		162
X
The Old Kitchen		181