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.rlie c./\1ETEOR.,
VoL. VI
DECEMBER, 1921
an amateur Jt>ousekeeper
No.1
Yes, it was my first week at keeping house; mother and sister had gone away and that left father and me to make it alone. I was, as I once expressed it, "the only skirts in the hot1se." Now, father, who is a forgetful man, had asked the old bishop home one night to dinner without informing me of the fact. And so the first news I got of it was when they walked in the house, and father said, "Son, how long before dinner will be ready~"
"About an hour, sir," was my reply. Well, of all feelings this was the worst; here I wns without a cook, inexperienced in tho art of housekeeping, and worst of all, practically noth- ing in the house fit for the occasion. The things I 1.'"!lew how to prepare I could not because the proper articles were not in tho house, and the things that were in the house I did not know how to serve. At last I decided on biscuit, scrambled
eggs, green peas, cold sliced tomatoes, and clabber. The latter, I knew, the bishop was very fond of, and I had some that was very nice and that had just turned.
I first started by fixing the biscuit, which I thought I knew
how to make. I then opened the peas and put them in a saucepan to be warmed. Now there were only six eggs in the ,. house and as I was breaking them very hurriedly over the skillet, I discovered that the last egg was bad. But it was
too late; it had slipped in with the rest; my eggs were ruined.
Just at that moment my attention was drawn to the oven,