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THE YOUNG SCIENTIST. 
table spoon, the rim of which had previ- 1 oven for half an hour to thoroughly bake 
ously been ground to a sharp edge. In this the paste joint. 
was placed the handkerchief, done up in The rolls were mostly filled with candies, 
many wrappings of old muslin to prevent i each roll containing a different kind; others 
the moisture contained in the cabbage from | held a gold pencil case, a pair of child's 
afi'ecting the finish of the fabric, and to : kid gloves, etc. The hollowing out of the 
rolls and sealing up was found to be very 
I easy, being accomplished in this way. 
From the bottom of each roll I cut out a 
square piece of crust; with my fingers I 
I removed all the inside crumb, then filling 
j the rolls with candies, fastened the square 
crust lids in their places with thick paste 
1 made of plain fiour and water. The paste 
showed in places, and fearing it might not 
protect it from the cutting knife. Brown be dry by morning, I slightly moistened 
bread and rolls, and a loaf of either wheat the entire bottom of the roll, then dredged 
or rye bread had been ordered for breakfast, it with dry flour, and applied a hot flatiron, 
Ascertaining that all these things were in which dried the paste thoroughly, and 
the house, I visited the baker and diipli- browned the bottom of the rolls very hand- 
cated all the above named articles (as those somely. The loaf was treated the same as 
containing the presents would not be fit to the rolls and filled with nuts, 
be eaten) securely hiding them so that they For dessert we had a very large English 
might be produced when needed. Taking plum pudding, in which a very great num- 
the loaf of brown bread, I made a clean cut ber of presents were contained — a finger 
half an inch below the top (Fig. 2, dotted ring, a velocipede, a boy's sled, skates, 
line), then scooped out the inside, taking a knock-me-over-knick-knackery what-not 
care not to make the walls of the hollow stand, two monkeys that were painfully 
loaf too thin. In this I placed a piece of pushed head first over sticks, a child's 
jewelry bountifully wrapped in cloths to i cooking stove, a skipping rope, and a train 
make it fit compactly inside the loaf, and of steam cars. It was easy to win Bridget 
! over as an accomplice in this fearful under- • 
taking, and together we did it. 
The ring was covered very closely with 
tin-foil to prevent the dough working 
about the jewels. I then pushed a close 
fitting cork through the ring. This cork 
was for the purpose of buoying up the ring, 
otherwise it would sink to the bottom of 
the pudding. Over the cork and ring I 
rolled a thin coating of stiff dough coated 
with dry flour, which caused it to hold fast 
to the soft batter of the pudding just where 
it was desired that the ring should remain. 
"Now for the velocipede, Bridget!" 
Bridget shook her head and exclaimed: 
"Indade, Sur, but you can never do it!" 
"Bridget," I exclaimed with terrible 
resolution, " Where there's a will there's a 
way. I'll just go round to the 'nice old 
Fig. 2. 
prevent anything loose being felt inside. 
The cloth also protected the jewelry from 
the knife when the bread was cut. The top 
of the loaf was fastened in its place with 
long pins (Fig. 2), and the joint was cov- 
ered with a brown paste made of crumbs of 
the bread. The loaf was then placed in the 
