The Clinton News Record, 1912-07-25, Page 3TIIE WHITE 1A1)Y*,
OR, WHAT THF. THRUSH SAID.
GlIAPTER I.
I NYLIB born at Ifalesowen, in the Black
Gountey. My father Wan a ChatiMalakdS;
and 1 WOldtod with him from the earliest
time I eau remember until the Uay o
his death. Ile was an ignorant man,
violent in temper, aed givee to drink.
Every Saturday he wouhi come home
heel mad, and would. thrash me without
Mercy. Bometimes be would thrash My
Oinkr also; but he never, negleeted me,
ancl I was glad to got inth a coal -hole,
or any other place of refuge, when I
heard his atop.
Many a Mine MY 'sister crept upsteies
to the garret to coneolo ate after he -had
waled me all over with the buckle -end
of his strap. She used to siton me bed,
and take me in her arms and cry over
me; and if she could find a crust of bread
or a cold potato she would ,bring t1
me, pressing me to eat it, while she wins-
eered thick weeds of hope cte her amide
heart could prompt,
We had no Inother. She died in child -
bed, end I only know of her from me
sieter's telling.My sister described ber
as •a little frail woman, silent, and sub-
missive to my father, though his evil
ways and evil passions rendered her -very
unhappy, Only 111100 did MY mother ro.
sent his violence, and then not on her
own accoinit.
It wee on Sunday night, while my sis.
tor was still a child. My mother, who
was very religious, sat at the table read -
i1110 her Bible, when my father came
home in one of his most fiendish humeral
and oursing, her for a cantingehyroarite,
threw the Bible into the fire and struck
her in the face with his fist:
My sister, seeing this, ran between thein,
screaming with terror, and tried to push
My father awey. Maddened with drink,
he seized the child by the hair, and lifted
his heavy hand to strike her, when my
niothor sprang ep, snatched et knife from
the table, and laid his cheek, open from
eyebrow to IM. lie drew back then, and
taking up the poker threatened to beat
her to a jelly; but my mothet put little
Alice behind her, and more that she
would send the knife through. his heitht
if he moved an tech forward; so, cursing
her my father staggered out of the houee,
and did not come back for a month. Re
never struck my mother again, but after
her death he scented to wreak his spite
upon us.
We led a mieereble life. From six b
the morniug until nine at night my sister
worlced at the nathmalcing, and I helped
my father in the smithy. Nearly aU my
father's wages went in drink or gamin
and the few shillings Alice earned went
the same way, so that wenever had
clothes to cover us, nor food enough th
feed ofy growth. I have seen niy eieter
take o her only under -petticoat and sell
it to buy a piece of bread for my supper.
I haye known her to walk a mile to the
out side after ten at night and sell a
• basket of empty whicky bottlee for a
piece of coal, when the frost was keen
and never a bit of fire In the grate. And
once when I had been down with a low
fever, and was (amine from wealcuees and
want of food. she jumped up suddenle,
kiseeci me, bade me be patient for a 111-
tle while, a,nd went out. She came back
in an hour, and brought me some white
bread and a small bunch of grapes.
•I can remember that occasion as if it
were a thing of yesterday. Alice, aneel-
Ina on the hearth with her arm around
me, and holding up the grapee_between
me and the fire, so that I Inigheee the
light shine through them; and I, with MY
head so heavy and numbed, hanging,
against her shoulder, and my eyes burn-
ing and smarting with fever. and, in
the corner of the room, my father's bull-
terrier crouched, snoring, with his broad
black intizzle on hie Dame.
I tried to eat the grapes, but my throat
was too Bore th swellow them. My lax
muscles; ached and quivered, every bone
of my body OMB sore, and X could feel
each separate rib aa my rough skirt fret.
to it. I was lightheaded, too, and full
of seek fancies, so that at one time /
thought the dog wes swelling to a mon-
strous size, and then began to cry out
that the dead mother was tapping at
the window. '
Years afterwards I saw a child 115011 a
doorstep lu Now 'York, with the fever in
his face and tbe ague in his limbs, and
I picked him up and took hint 0,0 my
lodgings, and nursed him for many
weeks. I did that more for my sister's
•sake thair for his or thr my 01111.
ri there is a heaveu, my Easter Alice Is
there, and amongst the chosen few. She
woe a, perfect wonran, and the great God,
who made the west wind end the brier
roae, never made anything more worthy
or more sweet than she. On the night I
speak of she had gone down to the drink.
ittg den where my father eat amongst his
c savage mates--clrunlcards, gamblers, clilld.
beaters, and wife -beaters all—and had
forced her way into the reeking tateroom
to plead for Ille•
MY father had mired' her for an :impu-
dent slut, and had threatened th fill her
ethe with ted -hot cinders; but the land.
lady, odious, lewd woman though she
wee, coming in, cried shame upon the
crowd of brutes-Mnd cowards, and offer-
ing to break a quart jug over the skull
of any man who would lay a hand on
the wench. hail given my sister the bread
and the grapes and sent her home.
Stich Watt the life we led, until 0 Wall
turned fourteen, wben I was bound, or
rather eold for a eallon of beer, to a
chain -smith called Black Jack, as ap ale
prentice.
With the men at Telson's works one jug
of ale meant many. On the night of my
apPrenticoship ray father and his boon
companione held a great enrollee, which
ended, as wee frequently the case, in a
quarrel and a fight.
That is another night I shall never, for-
get. Alice and 0 cowered together in the
dark beside the, ermity grate, and listen-
ed tearfully for the sound of my father's
heavy foot. Wo heard the, church clock
strike twelve: and one, and two, anti yet
10 never came, but about a quarter to
three a woman opened_ the door and called
°iet, Is there 01170007y whooam?" And
Alice " said. "Yes," And then the woman
tithed, "Ie yowre Will welecons And
Alice again fithid "Yee," upon which the
woman said, "Goan alit; Ive soomut to
tell thee, wench," ana e listened at the
window and heard her .say. "Ahm reit
sorry fur thee, wench, but we menu, fend
Bich things. Theer's, been a mw at tle
131ack 'orse tap, an' one o' felliee her
stabbed thee feether, and 'e's deead." ,
Ho was dead. They .brought lien home
after the inquest, and he was buried in
the little smoke -grimed graveycied beside
my mother. May he rest in peeem! Sav,
nee as he was, and cruelly as he ueed
us, he was my father; and he knew no
CHAPTER II.
Father being dead, we bad to give up
oui cottage, and my enter, as brave ae
over, went out to service, and sent me
money out of her poor WithrOX 0 70111
mb lodging% with Black ,Tack, and 00011
found that I had lost a bad father and
found a worse. The next BiX years of
My life May be soon told. Hard work and
ill -usage in the smithy by dam and hard
fare and illeasage in the home by night
Amongst all TOY' Workmates I had not a
single friend. My sister bad got from
me a promise that I would neither drink
nor gamble, and 0 kept my word, and wall
despised and hated for it.
Day after day, and year after year,
abuse and blows were shoWered on rne,
so that / grew up silent, sullen, and bit
ter: I had uever been to school, I could
scarcely reed or write, I had no 0081I80 -
MOB and no pleasuree. Indeed, the only
motives I had in life were to pietas° my
sister and to become a man. How I could
please or repay my sister I had no idea,
except by stolidly holding to my pronitee.
What I was to do when I was a man I
had no idea, except that I was determined
to give Black Jack a thrashing. The
hope of this righteous a,et sustained .rne
under a thousand trials. I prepared for
it with the ethrecy and cunning which
my friendless and solitary life had made
my second nature. Every Saturday night
I walked to a village a few miles away',
there I was unknown, and took lessone
m boxing from a groom who had been' a
menet. Every evening after work I went
down by the canal and wrestled with the
colliers' lade and bargees. Thoth exer-
cises, added to the constant training 01.
lorded by my use of the sledge. hammer,
°aimed me to develop rapidly into a lithe,
active, and clever athlete, with muscles
of brass and sinews of steel. A sloven
times a day I pinohed my wiry arms and
thighs, and thought of the reckoning that
Bleek Pack would be palled to on,the
day when I was twenty-one. No one sus-
Peoted my design. How often soever I
was insulted, cuffed and kicked by Black
Sack, or by other lads, I never retaliat-
ed, for I would not ahow my strength,
and the latter being used to me, and
growing with me, hardly noticed my
growth, nor did Black Jack seem to give
the matter a thought. A boy I wag when
I was bound to him, and a boy I was
until I was turned twenty, when a curi-
ous thing occurred.
It was one day in the heat of the sum-
mer, when the labor in the chain weeks
gets almost past endurance, and even the
keenest and the strongest are compelled
to rest at times, and I was Welling along
near the railway lines during the dinner
hour, when / met a gentleman and a
lady. I think noticed them first of all
beea.use of their unnatural cleenness. The
geetleman was tall and handsorae, and
walked with a proud but easy bearing,
as of one used to power, and confident
in 11,10 own strength. The lady was as
bright, as dainty, and as delicate as the
lilies she carried in her hand. I stared
at her as a savage might have stared
at her; Mat of course I was a 0417000.
When they came close to me the 'stran-
gers stopped. and the gentleman inquired
the way to the railway station, I pointed
out the way. It was very bot as I home
said, and the sweat was running over MY
blackened skin. I never knew before how
black it WEL% nor how low I was, IMO
how coarse and ignotant I wae; but I
knew then, and when the lady looked at
tne / felt ashamed to be seen. It wag a
neouliar look. She raised her eyelids slow-
ly, and hor large, dark eyes ;seemed to
shinewith increasing ligbt, reminding
me of the sun when he gradually liftn
his face above a cloud. For a second ahe
looked at me in 'this way; then, as she
mimed on, 2 heard her say: .
"Poor fellow, how hot and tired he
seems I".
"Give him a shilling, Braida," said the
gentleman.
The lady turned half round, end say -
the -"No; perhaps that would offend
him," held out to me one of the lilies
which she carried. I took it awawerdly
enough from the little gloved hand. over
wbieh a bright geld bangle had slipped
almmit to thp thumb, and I would have
said "Thank you," but my 1000818 seemed
.lued 10 017 teeth.
And ao they went out of my life, as
they bad come into it, and left me stand-
ing' shamefaced and silent, with the 'spot
less lily in TOY grimy ilkh.
What was I to do with the thing? I
could not take it into the smithy; the
men would have leuglied mcI to scorn. /
did not :Ike to throw it away. It was
time for me to go back to my work.
I turned the flower about and abont,
and tbe more X looked at it the more bit.
tarty I telt the contraet between myself
and tho gentleman who had just pained
me, and who had called the lady Beattie.
Perhaps ebe was his sister, I thought;
and then -I remembered rny own sister,
and her omely face, and ugly frock, and
big, misshapen hands, and with a sudden
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impulse 0 flung the lily over the railway
fence, anci wont, back to my work.
But though I had thrown the flower
away ri,i,td not forget it, nor the strange
sweet gaze of the lady who hued giyen it
to me. As I swung the huge hammer
my mind kept running on. I thought of
the • gardens where such flowers opted
grow; I thought of the houses where euch
radies lived; I seemed to resale° for the
fleet time that there was a world meteide
our smithy yard. that there were green
fields, and elean streete„ and gentle and
geed people, fromewhere• Andthen I
soowled-round upon the drudging,.swarthy
imunterearts of mYselt who tolled and
sweated. ehoto amongst the glare and
reek, end 0 thought of my peat life, and
all its miseries, and of the future which
had nothing to melte it bearable but re-
verse°. "What 000 yea 'waiting for?" I
asked myself, until "What are you wait,
in for? What are you waiting for? What
are you waiting for?" became a, kind of
tune to hanimeeto.
I did hammer to it, X hammered the
idea into my mind, I hammered every
other idea out of my mind, and as
eradually settled to my resolution my
strokes fell dower, slower. and at last
Black jack broke out into a !menet of
curses, and ordered me strike faster or
he'd fell me.
But instead of striking faster I held
the hammer poised for a moment above
MY bead, and then, turning very slowly
pitched it with 10 sudden Jerk of the wrists
inhO a heap ot cinder's several yarde away.
Black Jaelc straightened himself up,
and let his hand-hannner Ile upon the
seething link, while he stared at me with
his great mouth gaping wide, and ble
bleary eyes starting out of his head.
The fellows et the next two fires also
stopped, and looked on in mimed. sur-
prise.
I folded my arms and loblced at Black
Jack with a smile. "No," I said, answer-
ing his look, "not anther stroke. I have
finished. I will never lift a hammer
again for you. You dog!"
Black jack threw- down his hammer,
and canto round to my Mae of the an.
vil. "Talk' oop that theer tool," said lie.
"or ru kick thee while thee teeth drope
aht."
I could laughed out loud with delight.
the treee I 0i:raid rex, a .blue-shirtece
brownearmed mower 'whetting hie seethe.
I 'rose, Ond, looking up at the glietening
skY. thanked God. I was 'hungry and
weary, and almost penniless; .but I thlt
that thls WAS good,
For the fleet ten miles I went on very
well; but iie the sun gained power I be-
gan to feel weary 'and faint. My feet
were blietered, aud my old shoos, scorcb.
ed by the smithy fires, gave way, so that
I fell lame, and limped on at a sorty
And now I wet to meet My firet experi.
Duce of Cleristian.charity..I was pameleg
a pretty little house jaBh beyond Bon
Meer, end fleeing a lady in a white 121118.
litt (trend Mid 8 white sun bonnet trim-
ming a 1000 bush in the garden, 0 made
bold to ask her for a drink of water.
She Watt a young girl, as fair and as
pretty as the flowers she tended, bue I
slippage she had never known want or
trouble,. for elle turned her light blue
eyes upon me .very coldly and said, in e
sharp tonee"Cortainly not. The Hermits
have to fetch every drop of our water
from the well, and we have none to waste
upon tramps."
I turned away from the, garden gate
and limped me without a word. I felt
mOIM sorry than hurt, 01010 uthre ashateed;
for her thien for mySelf, and I remem-
bered the lady who gave mc the lily, and
the gentle leek she .gave me with it, and
I began to understand dimly why that
look had enoved Inc 00 etrongly. It was
the light of love thee had ehono in on
my dark soul from those groat meet
eYee. The :light of the rove that is of
no sex, no nation, and no oreed; of the
love that is Christ -like in its humanity
and divinity; the 'love that teepee all,
believes all; pardons all, and gloriflen all.
So I blessed the lady of the lily, and
fared on.
But my progress was painfully slow; and
it was well on in the afternoon ere I had
ineiteurecI fifteen miles ot'the dusty road,
and found meeelf naming a row of mean
little cottages bent at the edge of a
briokfteld. At the door of the first house
a stout, swarthy woman of middle age
stood knitting, and I asked her, although
her thee was by no means inviting, it
she would give me a cup ot water.,
She looked at me steadily for a Moe
ment from under her great blue cotton
ho'od, then said, in a deep, rough voice,
"Aye, marry; whynot, boy? Ye looks
th! ye'd coone fur, and it be hot, it be,
an' these meads vaary dainty."
I thanked her, and said I had not Dam
edt 'stream for many miles, and as very
thirsty.
"Why. eure.I.Y" said tha woman, "and
belike yeal COMO ill fur a while, an' 111
eet ye 000O o' tea; wheerby it±n joost
now ready, in manner o' epealciue an'
MY 'oosband '11 be in fro' the briekfleld
oily minute.
Nor would she take a referral, so that
I found myself directly seated in it crthe
ohair at the rough deal table, with a cup
of tea, and a plate of bread and butter
before me, and the 11)011 woman stand.
iug bv inc side knitting. and uttering
words of wonder and sympathy as I told
her of the-dietance / had come, and must
yet go before I reached London.
"Aye," she said, "but Loondon's no Peed
Place, boy, an' ye'd be better back at
hoome. But ve meet noS goa theer whiles
ye rest yenta', and' yea% lame too, as I
see, poor boy; awe, but it be a long rooad
and carae in and bade
yeAn'advieljetoe tthr:vl."
ieleeb
me welcome, and took his Inc. and con-
versed with his wife in Short mumbles and
gruff =owls, intersperecd will muttered
"Aye, welts," and "Dear 'carts, and "Nay,
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At last I had him; he was fairly in MY elvers," as he learned the history Of ale
reach. "Tack," I said, and I noticed a pilgrimage.
sort of half shiver in nay voice as I spoke; But after tea this apparently uncouth
"Jack, if you are man enough to hold laborer set to work with cheery kindness'
your hands up, hold them up noes." to doctor my crippled feet. Re YOU tumped
That did it. Jack made a lunge at my worsted through tbe blister, rubbed them
face. I expected it. I had arrangedyeats with soap, gave am o, pair of well -darned
ago how I was to meet it. Stopping 11 seirliliilintisineelecsveit,eingw.oryereitanedieesvdhisein,y
bullock beside hie own anvil. and the "'PAT.
With the right, I feinted with the left, and.
edged in. swung hie left back to ;ley, stood. at his door and barked out
after nie, "Good speed, sonny. Slow an'
floor 1130, and then I aave him the right
;straight in his teeth, with all the force of ease does it. ,A big 'eart beats a big
And so trudged on refreshed and rest-
eix years' training, and all the rage of
six year!? persecntion behind it, MI, and feeling loss friendlees and more
lesowen.
Ito eful
0,1 was ow ...iv. blow ,iad the a.m._ Han • than Ed any time since I left
th deal him. He dropped like a poleaxed
(To be cont(nued.)
blood gushed from his mouth in a stream, 44
The other men ran up to his assiet-
anee, and a dozen of them surrounded TOWNS WITHOUT TAXES.
me with menacing looks. But this also I • .
his
ad promed myself. "NOW, men,' I said
with a sneer. "this is my .holiday. which Germany and 'France Have One
of you'll step out into tbe coal -yard for
O round? Come, now, you know me. Take Each.
that black nie away to his stye, and then
It was recently reported from
011 non any aix of you, one down and
the other come on." Germa,ny that; there was a, little
I believe thee thought was mad, and 1±
Own X was, in soine senee. BIM at any rate eown within the empire in which
they did not molest me, and so 1 threw there were 300 taseee. Tale t,OW11 pas -
ray cap amongst them and, calling them
"dirty curs," walked slowly across the S.essed benefactio.n.s, the revenues
yard and out at the gate into the road. from whieh enabled it to pay its
when 0 got into the road, / looked once way without the intervention of the
at the spot where the lady stood th Rive
me the lily. end then turned my face to tax gatherer.
the south and set off at a swinging pace, France never likes to be outdone
which I maintained for hours. Indeed, I . .
Kane more than thirty railes. It was then contemporary has set itself the task
loaf of bread, and went into a eoadside
alehouse, whore I got lodgings for the more than a parallel has been dis-
eovdred, for -not only are there no
taxes but hte timbers on the com-
OflAPTIbit XIS, munal lands are sufficient t,o grant
The alehouth where I slept stood on the each person a small a,nntiity. This
outskirte of a pretty hamlet between Ban. ha,ppy land is Montmarion, in the
bury and Pinkney. lay late, and the
July sun was well up in the sky before Midi. There are seven electors in
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do not think / stopped at all until I had by anything German, so a Pads
abent ten e'eleek at night' '0 bought of finding a parallel. Something
had finished my breakfast of brown the hamlet, so to LWOW anything
bread and milk and taken the road again.
I went slowly at first, being etifr and like rivalry the seven return them -
(noway; but the sweet air soon revived selves to the local council. Cutting
me, and the thought that I was quit of
my old sad tice made me feel quite cheer- down. the trees and selling.. the.m. is
I had alreadY got quite clear of the beillIfeleelees5iant tpolopepoeovetelea, livelihood for
Black -Country, 8,ud my road lay through .. ., ....whose tastes
'green closes and wide fields of standing are so mooest zna,t tney may DO
corn. The cottages along the highway
were clean and bright, with flowers termed by some 11.1101ViliZed.
trained over their' lattices, rund pigeons -----ds-----,
fluttering above their thatched roof 8, and
in the trim gardens before them the A CHILD'S. PATIENCE.
broad -faced sunflowers end flaunting hol-
lyhocks made o., brave show. Lady Henry Semerset, whoso lab -
Better th-die here of hunger, I thought,
with the scented elder flowers they° and
the claisied graSS below, than th live for London shuns are constant and
Ors in behalf of the children of the
a aentury of brutish elavery in the stroke
and -sulphur of the chairs sheds.
Meanwhile, no I was walking, 11 woltld
be well to decide upon some &mese, and
whither should I go but to London? So
turning south-eaet from Toweesthr fields,
X took the rand to Buckingham.
About four in the abtor�o 0 reached
Bletebley, where I RDA ['WWI] Under a hay.
rick near the road, end nieeed together
a letter to: my sister, telling her briefly
that I had left Blaelc jack, •and bidding
ber send me a few lines in care ,of the
General Post Office, London,
This done, I continued my thurney. I
ehould have beet' better pleased to MO
Alice and take ber advice; and as else
was in service at'Bedford, not more than
eight miles from Bletchley, I felt sorely
tempted to visit hen. But I was so sha,bbli,
in my coarse working dress, and had SO
few pence in Iny,_pocket, that I could not
.fInd in mY heart' to go and ask for her.
I posted my letter, and walked on.
About eight o'clock X passed through a
small village a few miles south of ()hod-
dingten, and hero 0 boeght a 'pint of new
milk ,and a rola for my stepper, after
which I turued from the road along a
'meadow footpath, and coming to a hezel
greee, stretthed myself llOOT1 the bracken
by a bramble bush, a,nd was goon asleep.
I could not afford a lodging that night,
as 0 had but sixpence left, and a long
ditv'e ranch still lay between me and
I was awakened early by the shrill pip-
ing of a blackbird, and sat up, feeling
cold and stiff, ana wondering where'swas,
The grass ,and fermi were wet with dew,
and the dewdrops sparkled on every leaf
and twig; a cloud of gnats strug hover -
flies flew round me, making a dl'OBT99
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these little ones was aroused.
I was moved in that direction by
the rare patience and imagination
of one little boy. His example con-
vinced Tthe that patience was one of
the qualities I needed most, and in
seeking it I grew into tllat work.
I was in a hospital on visiting -
day, while the doctors were ehang-
ing a plaster cast which held the
crippled boy's limb. The operation
was exceedingly painful, I was told.
To my surprise, the little sufferer
neither stirred nor winced, but
made a curious buzzing sound with
his mouth. After the doctors left I
said to him:
"How .could you possibly stand
"That's nothing," he answered.
'Why, I just made believe that a
be was stingin' nie. Bees don't
hurt very, T1111011, you know. And I
kept buzzin' because I was afraid
I'd forget about its being a bee if
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SI BL DISHES.'
Berries in Border, — Make a
blallefilail"'e'frelll two cups of milk,
one-cinart'or cup of cornstarch, a
saltspoon of salt, three rounding
tablespoons of sugar, a teaspoon of
vanilla and the whites of three 'egg:3
13eaten stiff a,nd stirred in after -the
blancmange has cooked ten minutes
and it is taken from the fire, Turn
into a *border mold and when firxn
turn onto a large plate and fill the
center with fresh raspberries
sprinkled with powdered sagar.
Red Raspberry Ice.—Put one
quart of water and one and two-
thirds cups of sugar in the preserv-
ing kettle and boil for, 20 minutes.
'When cold add two cups of mashed
berries, strain tlivough Cheeseeloth
bag, add two tablespoonftils of le-
mon juice and one of rose—exteact
and freeze.
Froated or Crushed OurranteA.-
Use large firm clusters of currants
for this dish. Have in- front of you
a soup plate containing the whites
of three,eggs mixed with five table-
spoonfuls of cold water, another
plate filled with eifted powdered
sugar at your right, the bowl of
currants at your bit. Dip each
bunch of currants in the wa,ter and
white of egg, 'turn it Over and over
in the sugar and lay etl a chilled
platter to dry. When all are done
sift more powdered sugar Over the
fruit and arrange carefully on a
glass dish.
Currant punch.—Take two cup-
fuls af purd red currant juice, a
quart of water and a cupful of eu-
gar. Simmer together five minutes
and cool. Slice two lernons and two
oranges thin and pour into a bowl
with a large piece of ice and add
the juice. Or.mix KO currant jelly
with boiling water and sugar. and
peer over fresh. -currants in a bowl.
Currant Pudding.—Wash the cur-
rants and pick fro,m the stems. Sift
four cups of flour with sixlevel tea-
spoons of baking powder, then rub
in one-quarter cup each of butter
and lard and mix with one and
one-half cups of milk or enough itilk
to make a soft dough. 'Roll out half
an inch thick and cut a round to
fit the bottom of a buttered pail,
put on a layer of currants and
sprinkle -with sugar. Repeat the
rounds and fruit until the mold is
more than half full. Cover closely
and -steam two hours; serve with
liquid sauce.
Currant Fluff.—Beat white of egg
to stiff froth, add knife -tip of salt
and scant dessert spoon of home-
made currant jelly. Beat till smooth
and rosy. Pile on slice of cake or
sugar cookie. This amount is really
large enough for two persons if
egg is large.
Mrs. Morse's Spiced Currants.—
To six quarts currants, stemmed
and washed, ,allow four pounds
white sugar, two tablespoons cloves,
two tablespoons cinnamon, little
salt, one pint sugar. Boil half an
hour and bottle.
Curra.nt Pie,—Beat the yolks of
two eggs with one tablespoonful of
flour when smooth, add two table-
spoons of water, one cup of sugar
and cup of crushed ripe currants.
Turn into a pie plate lined with
good -paste anel bake. Beat the
whites of the 'eggs until stiff, add
eta,wtoei ty.ablespoons of sugar, spread
this over the pie and beown deli -
Currant Jam.—Use two quarts of
either red or white currants, from
which the stenns have been remeved ;
three pounds of sugar, one pound
of chopped raisin, and two oranges
peeled and sliced. Boil 20 minutes
Green Pea Soup.—Wash -a small
forequarter of lamb in cold' water
and put it into a soup pot with six
•quarts of cokl water ; add to it two
tablespoonfuls of salt, and set it
over a moderate fire. Let it boil
gently for two hours, then skim it
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hum; the air smelt of the graes rune the „teem with the money he burn -Se
Mayes, and through the alim branches of
clear; add 5, quart of shelled peas
and a teaspoonful of pepper; cover
it and let it boil for half an hour.
Then having scraped the skins from
a quart of small, young potatoes,
add them to the soup '. cover the pot
and let it boil for half an hour lon-
ger. Work one-quarter of a pound
of butter and it tablespoonful of
flour together, and add them to the
soup 10 or 12 minutes before taking
it off the fire. Serve the meat on ft
dish with pareley sauce over it., and
the soup in a tureen,
FOR THE PICNIC TABLE.
A veal loaf is always appetizing
In the woods. An excellent recipe
is: Three pounds and it half of fine-
ly -chopped veal—the log best -,—mix-
ed with three well -beaten, eggs, in-
to which is stirred a grated nut-
meg, a tableepoen each of bla,ck
pepper, thyme and salt, a teaspoon-
ful of, onion juke and a dash of
cayenne. Add three tablespoonfuls
of cream and three water cra,ckers
rolled fine, Mix in a long loaf, dot
with butter and bake about an hour
in a moderate oven, basting fre-
quently.
Veal loaf may be sliced thin and
packed in paraffin paper in a flat
box, but driee out less if taken to
the picnic whole. (Dairy a sharp
carving knife, as thick slices are
unappetizing.
Deviled eggs are usually more
popular than plain hard boiled
ones. Boil the eggs fully half an
hour, throw at once into cold water
and do not shell until chilled. Cut
the eggs in half lengthwise, run the
yolk through a sieve and mix to a,
paste with a saltspoon of mustard,
cayenne pepper, Sian and a table-
spoonful of finely chopped parsley
to a dozen eggs. Oil or inelted but-
ter' can be used for mixing the
paste.
Deviled eggs carry better if both
halves are filled, then put together
and each egg wrapped in waxed
paper. Or they can be put in a
shallow tin box, with waxed paper
between the layers. On hot da.ys
keep the box near the ice on reach-
ing the picnic grounds.
If each one brings a certain al-
lotted portion, one eould take fresh
eggs for scrambling—allow three
for each person—a small preserve
glass of butter, salt and pepper and
a, 'skillet- or a, chafing dish, which-
ever is more convenient.
Nothing is better than fresh
scrambled eggs at a picnic unless
it is fried potatoes. Boil tbe pota-
toes at home—in their jackets—and
take a good supply of butter for fry-
ing. A pound can be carried in a
tin kettle with ice packed around
it. Have sharp knife for slicing and
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Cooking at pienice is such fun that
more of it should be done. Collap-
sible skillets and smell stoves are
easy to carry, and a eated fire is al-
ways' passible.
A "rabbit" is unusual and appe-
tizing in the woods. For this ink -
a rich cheese. Thin with ce•eam. Put
a tablespoonful of butter in the
skillet, when melted, add seasoning
—salt, cayenne, it teaspoonful of
mustard — then add milk and
the cheese by degrees. It should
first be out fine. When nearly
done, the well -beaten yolk of an
egg can be ahded. The "rabbit"
must not be started until everything
else is ready for the picnic feast.
An appetizing sandwich for a pic-
nic is made. from slices of brown
breed on which is spread a mixture
of chopped green peppers, to Which
is added a can of sweet peppers or
pimentos, a little minced parsley,
bound together with a highly sea-
eoned mayonnaise.
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a cash prize in last year' s conteSt. In that last
contest there were 36 prizes. There will be three
times aS many prizes (108) in the
1912 FARMERS' PRIZE CONTEST'
THUS you will hue three tines as many chances of winning a cult
prize. You do not have to use any certain amount of Canada Cement
to win a prize. There are absolutely no "strings" to this offer.
There are twelve prizes for each Province (three of $50 ; three of $25; three of
$15; and three of $10) and you compete only with other farmers in your ONYX'S Prov-
ince and not with those all over Canada.
It makes no difference whether you have ever used cement. Many of last year's winners
had not used it until they entered the contest, When you write for full particulars, we will
send you, free, a book, "What the Farmer Can Do With Concrete," which tells everything
you need to know about concrete. It is absolutely free, and you me under no
obligution to buy " Canada" Cement or to do anything else for u).
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