The next day the jam was firm on top, and Norah said it ought to be covered and put away at once or it would get too hard. **How shall I cover it. Mother!' * Mildred asked anxiously. ** Paste on papers or some- thing?'' **0h, no, indeed! nobody does that way any more. Ask Norah if she has any paraffin left over. ' ' 164 THE FUN OF COOKING « But no, she had used every bit she had to cover her grape jelly ; so Brownie had to go to the drug-store and get ten cents' worth. It came in a large cake, so clear and white it looked good enough to eat, but it was n% as the little girl found out by tasting. It was just like candles, and only mice like to eat candles. Norah said she would show the girls how to cover jams and jellies and spiced things, and everything you put in jelly-glasses. **You take this little saucepan that I keep on purpose for paraffin, *' she said, **and put the whole cake in it after you cut it in two, and melt it ; only be careful and don't let it splash on my clean stove and make it greasy. And while it is melting you can wipe off the jam glasses with a warm, wet dish-cloth and make them all clean and dry. * ' While Brownie was washing off the glasses Mildred cut some little slips of paper and printed on these the names for the different things they had made; peach on some, and SPICED GBAPES ou others, and geape jam or APPLE JELLY OU the rest. Then she got the pot of paste from the library ; by this time the paraffin was melted and all ready to use. Norah showed them how to pour a little on top of each J Proud, I want Everybody ti JAMS AND JELLY 167 glass, right on the jam, and then tip the glasses a little so it would run up the sides toward the top. Li a moment it hardened, and was ready for the tin covers to go on so the mice could not get at it, and then they pasted the labels on, and it was done. Norah helped carry the trays to the preserve closet and put them away in rows, being very careful not to tip them and slide the paraffin up the sides of the glasses. Then they stood and looked at them, and, oh, how proud the girls felt I **I *11 make some more to-morrow, '* said Mil- dred, * * and some more after that, and some more after that, and some more after that I'' CHAPTEB XI A Hallowe'en suppbb ^'TTALLOWE'EN next week. Wish we XJL could do something nice,'' Jack said to Mildred as they put away their hooks one night at hed-time. * * So do L I 'm tired of school already, and here it is only October! Of course, I don't mean that I 'm dreadfully tired of it, you know, only just a little bit tired. I think, if we could have something very nice indeed to do, I could get on till the Christmas vacation— or at least till Thanksgiving without making any great fuss." Jack laughed. He knew that Mildred, like himself, was always ready to have a good time. **Let 's have a Hallowe'en party," he sug- gested. **Not a sheet and pillow-case party, either; we 've had those till I can't even think of one without wanting to scream." **And not one where you bob for apples and walk around the house backward. I 've 166 A HALLOWE^EN SUPPER 169 done both those till I never want to do them again. I mean some new kind of a party. ' ' But they could not think of anything new that seemed exactly what they wanted; so the next day they went in to see Miss Betty after school and asked her about it. *^Why, a chafing-dish party, of course, *' she said. * * That 's exactly the thing to have. You make a lot of indigestible things to eat and then you go to sleep and dream of ghosts" and goblins, and hear shivery noises and groans and such things — ^just what you want, on Hallow- e^enl I can think of a lot of awfully good things to have, things warranted to give you nightmares. * ' Jack said that suited him exactly, but Mildred was not so sure.

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The next day the jam was firm on top, and Norah said it ought to be covered and put away at once or it would get too hard. **How shall I cover it. Mother!' * Mildred asked anxiously. ** Paste on papers or something?'' **0h, no, indeed! nobody does that way any more. Ask Norah if she has any paraffin left over. ' ' « But no, she had used every bit she had to cover her grape jelly ; so Brownie had to go to the drug-store and get ten cents' worth. It came in a large cake, so clear and white it looked good enough to eat, but it was not as the little girl found out by tasting. It was just like candles, and only mice like to eat candles. Norah said she would show the girls how to cover jams and jellies and spiced things, and everything you put in jelly-glasses. **You take this little saucepan that I keep on purpose for paraffin, *' she said, **and put the whole cake in it after you cut it in two, and melt it ; only be careful and don't let it splash on my clean stove and make it greasy. And while it is melting you can wipe off the jam glasses with a warm, wet dish-cloth and make them all clean and dry. * ' While Brownie was washing off the glasses Mildred cut some little slips of paper and printed on these the names for the different things they had made; peach on some, and SPICED GRAPES ou others, and geape jam or APPLE JELLY OU the rest. Then she got the pot of paste from the library ; by this time the paraffin was melted and all ready to use. Norah showed them how to pour a little on top of each [illustration: text fragment from page continues] glass, right on the jam, and then tip the glasses a little so it would run up the sides toward the top. Li a moment it hardened, and was ready for the tin covers to go on so the mice could not get at it, and then they pasted the labels on, and it was done. Norah helped carry the trays to the preserve closet and put them away in rows, being very careful not to tip them and slide the paraffin up the sides of the glasses. Then they stood and looked at them, and, oh, how proud the girls felt I **I *11 make some more to-morrow, '* said Mildred, * * and some more after that, and some more after that, and some more after that I'' CHAPTEB XI A Hallowe'en suppbb ^'TTALLOWE'EN next week. Wish we XJL could do something nice,'' Jack said to Mildred as they put away their hooks one night at bed-time. * * So do L I 'm tired of school already, and here it is only October! Of course, I don't mean that I 'm dreadfully tired of it, you know, only just a little bit tired. I think, if we could have something very nice indeed to do, I could get on till the Christmas vacation— or at least till Thanksgiving without making any great fuss." Jack laughed. He knew that Mildred, like himself, was always ready to have a good time. **Let 's have a Hallowe'en party," he suggested. **Not a sheet and pillow-case party, either; we 've had those till I can't even think of one without wanting to scream." **And not one where you bob for apples and walk around the house backward. I 've A HALLOWE^EN SUPPER 169 done both those till I never want to do them again. I mean some new kind of a party. ' ' But they could not think of anything new that seemed exactly what they wanted; so the next day they went in to see Miss Betty after school and asked her about it. *^Why, a chafing-dish party, of course, *' she said. * * That 's exactly the thing to have. You make a lot of indigestible things to eat and then you go to sleep and dream of ghosts" and goblins, and hear shivery noises and groans and such things — ^just what you want, on Hallowe'enl I can think of a lot of awfully good things to have, things warranted to give you nightmares. * ' Jack said that suited him exactly, but Mildred was not so sure.

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