OUT-DOOR COOKERY 75 



" Vou all remember the old summer kitchen at the 

 farm that is filled with boxes, tools, and rubbish, — 

 the long, low room back of the dairy, with the brick 

 floor and wide fireplace? " 



" Oh, yes," said Nat, " I've looked in there trying to 

 find Bats that I've seen go through a place where the 

 glass was broken, but it was stuffed so full of every- 

 thing that I couldn't get in at the door." 



"Now," continued the Doctor, "this very day Rod 

 is clearing out all the rubbish, and I am going to let 

 you fit up that old room like a log-cabin camp. The 

 fireplace is large enough to hold a fine campfire. This 

 is part first. 



"Part second. — Every Saturday afternoon that it 

 is pleasant your father or I will teach you to shoot at 

 a target. 



"Part third. — When it is dark you shall go into 

 ' camp ' and cook your own supper, after the same fash- 

 ion as you have seen the dinner cooked to-day, then 

 after supper we will have stories about the four-footed 

 Americans. Nez has promised to tell some of them, 

 and Olaf others. Rap can tell what he knows of the 

 nearby beasts, while your father and I will fill in the 

 chinks." 



" How did you ever think of anything so lovely ? " 

 exclaimed Olive. 



" I can hug you now," said Dodo, immediately doing 

 it vigorously. 



" Hurrah ! Moo-oo-o ! " was Nat's response, trying 

 to blow a joyful blast on the Moose horn, and failing 

 utterly, while Rap sat in silence, but with a beaming 

 face. 



