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Apple dumplings.

Drawing: Graphite, ink and watercolor on paper; 5 3/4 x 6 1/8 in. A peddler approaches a table with a plate of apple dumplings. A prisoner sits on a wooden barrel at the table, eating. Another prisoner stands behind him. Seated prisoner: 'Mr. Hurry up with some more of them dumplings I aint had any since the war begun.' Standing prisoner: 'Mr. do you trade your dumplings for Tobacco.' Peddler: 'Here's your hot Apple dumplings, two and molasses to go with them for five cents.'

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Drawing: Graphite, ink and watercolor on paper; 5 3/4 x 6 1/8 in. A peddler approaches a table with a plate of apple dumplings. A prisoner sits on a wooden barrel at the table, eating. Another prisoner stands behind him. Seated prisoner: 'Mr. Hurry up with some more of them dumplings I aint had any since the war begun.' Standing prisoner: 'Mr. do you trade your dumplings for Tobacco.' Peddler: 'Here's your hot Apple dumplings, two and molasses to go with them for five cents.'
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Point Lookout Album, Page 69.
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