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(If the potato is left-over, and so is cold, add V^ a cup of hot milk to it and beat it up till it is smooth and hot.) Mix the meat, water, and seasoning all together in a saucepan and let it cook till it gets rather dry, stirring it often. Butter a baking dish and cover the sides and bottom with the potato, half an inch thick. Put the meat in the center, and then put the rest of the potato over the top and make it nice and smooth. Put bits of butter all over the top and brown in the oven. CREAMED SALMON 1 can of salmon (medium size). 1 large cup of white sauce, well seasoned with salt and pepper. Open the can, drain the fish of oil and take out the skin and bones; mix lightly, lay on squares of buttered toast; put slices of lemon and bits of parsley all around the edge of the platter. (Ton can use any sort of cooked fish instead of salmon.) HOT SARDINES 1 box large sardines. 4 slices of toast. Juice of % a lemon. Sprinkles of salt, pepper and dry mustard. Open the sardines and lift them out carefully; drain the oil off. Put them on a tin plate in the oven to get very hot while you make toast and cut it into strips; cut the crust off and butter them a little. When the sardines are hot put one on each strip of toast, sprinkle with lemon juice, salt, pepper and mustard (only a tiny bit of mustard), and serve at once on a hot dish with parsley all around. Besides these good things the children made all sorts of potatoes and muffins and everything else they had learned, and they really had a beautiful time. But the most fun of all was on Saturday when they had the cooking to do for two days and plenty of time in which to do it. CHAPTER XV [illustration: THANKSGIVING DAY SUPPER] **Mother Blair, did you ever think thatt J. V JL Thanksgiving Day has one great defects **Why, no, Mildred, I don't believe I ever did,*' smiled her mother. "Do tell me what it is,'' **Well, we have to have dinner in the afternoon so the littlest cousins can go home early, and so Norah can get away in time for her regular party — she always goes to one, you know, that evening; and that leaves us with nothing to do for hours before bedtime. I don't know why it is, but that time always drags." * * That is a real defect, Mildred, and I 'm glad you told me, because we don't want any part of Thankgiving Day to drag. It ought to be lovely till the very end. What can you think of that we can do to make it so!" "I think if all the cousins would stay on instead of going home at dark, and if we arranged something interesting, like a little play or charades, first, and then, when we got hungry, about eight o'clock, we had a hot supper, that would be just perfect/' **0f course! That 's a bright idea, Mildred. All the cousins are old enough now to spend the evening, and we can have a lovely time together. You arrange the play, and I 'U get up the supper for you. ' ' **No, indeed. Mother Blair! We three juniors will get it — ^that 's part of the fun. And don't you think it would be nice to have it in here on the big library table? We could bring the things in on trays and then just help ourselves. ' ' **That 's another bright idea! Of course it would be delightful to have it in here. Then afterwards we could have a wood fire in the grate and sit around it to tell stories, and have games, and charades, and sing some songs together, and be just as thankful as possible. What shall we have for supper? I fancy we shall not want anything very heavy after our dinner. ' ' **No, of course not; but it can be something awfully good.' Cold turkey to begin with, and something hot to go with it, and — and what else, Mother Blair?" **0h, cranberry jelly, and perhaps a salad. and then something sweet to finish with. Do you think that would do f