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The Pastoral Parson 
(Coninued from page 87.) 
happened. With a !Meceano outfit they 
'have made every sort of a thing and 
worked it with .string belts from the 
motor. 
Electric Thixos.— They have quite a 
collection of wires and stuff and a small 
button switch. At this very moment they 
have a long strong string belt running 
clear across the room and a sort of trolley 
attached to it. The motor takes this 
across in a jiffy and by reversing the 
belt, back it goes agjiiu. Ivoads of all 
'sorts of things are put on it to carry. 
What a time they have had with it and 
are having I It certainly is worth a 
wagonload of cheap mechanical toys. 
They are always trying new things, re-ar¬ 
ranging, repairing—in fact, learning. 
That Bary.— It certainly has been 
cold weather for little babies I We put 
up a coal stove in Mother’s room, and so 
the.v have been able to keep nice and 
Avarm. Mother keeps saying, “How sweet 
the children are with the baby. I can’t 
get over it.” How they talk to him and 
kiss his little hands. Today as little 
Clossie was loving him he smiled a little 
and cooed the least tiny bit. It tickled 
'him almost to jiieces. 'J’he height of joy 
for the oldest boys is to hold him and 
rock 'him for a little while. Sit is plan¬ 
ning so much on rolling him in his 
carriage when it gets warm. What a 
time they Avill all have with him when he 
gets old enough to laugh and play. 
Doctor Didn’t Hrixo Hnr.—We have 
fried to he very frank and honest with the 
cliildren about mattoi's of this sort. We 
have never made it a hmsiness to tell them, 
awaiting their natural questioning about 
such matters just as they ask about other 
things. Then we tell them. As soon as 
I knew the older would begin to 
notice things, I told them, one at a time, 
when Ave were alone together, about Avluit 
we were looking forward to, and how good 
we must be to ^lamina. I know that some 
of the school children cast the matter up 
to the boys, but they were looked down 
upon with contempt. Did not they know 
all about it long ago! 
Milki.xg Time.— As natural questions 
about sucli matters often come at awk¬ 
ward times from <-hildren, the I’arson has 
sometimes steered tiie matter a hit him¬ 
self. The nicest time for this has been 
when we were off Avith the team together, 
or still more often, during milking time. 
One or the other of the boys at night goes 
out Avith the I’arsou to milk. There 
(piestions about cah'es and chickens come 
up so 'naturally, and can be settled so 
satisfactorily. Is it right for children to 
liaA’e to learn these things in a nasty.Avay 
from others? 
Who ^Iilks.—T he Parsons was some- 
Avhere the other da.v when a man remarked 
that it Avas “Cuaa's that drove the boys 
from the farm.” The more I thought of 
that, the more I think there is to it. I 
have read of a man Avho refused to be a 
.slave to a hen, but who can refuse to h(' 
a slave to a cow? We can't help our¬ 
selves; Ave have to 1>e. If one escapes 
for a minute he must 'hurr.v home iu time 
for chores. “I can’t come long.” .said a 
man the other da.v to me. “Yon see I 
have 27 cows, and each has to he fed 
seven times a day.” And milking is a 
mean job for boys. 
Heard Him Crying.—T he Parson re¬ 
members happening through the barn 
floor one time last Summer and hoard a 
sobbing in the stable. Doing in, I found 
bitter tears being mingled Avith the milk. 
It Avas hot and in fly time, and the cows 
tail Avas busy. I saw at once th:it that 
Avas not the Avay to make a boy like the 
farm. Since then. avIhui at home and not 
too busy, the Parson has milked. He 
likes to anyway. The boy that I take 
Avith me can bed the calves or get doAvii 
silage, card the heifer, and he having a 
nice A’isit Avith nu'. As I look back now 
I can .see hoAV I h.ated to milk as a hoy. 
It Avas always getting up early to milk in 
the morning and getting home early to 
milk at night. It hardly seemed cred¬ 
ible, Avhen I Avent off to teacii school, 
that I Avas not to pile out iu tlie morning 
with a lantern to do chores. 
A Christmas Trip.— It Avas a groat 
Christmas trip we had. going doAvn to 
the church. It Avas lucky the fool killer 
was not out that night, for we attempted 
the journe.A' in the car. We got Avithin 
about tAvo miles Avhen with nothing hut 
a sled track and a hard crust of siunv, 
she could go no further. With_ chains 
and plenty of poAver she Avould neither go 
forward or backward. There the car Avas, 
right in the middle of the road and it Avas 
almost night, and such a load of stull 
we had in it! A’ll the Christmas thing.s 
for the church ami a stcroopticou with 
gas tank and slides. 12-qiuirt can of beef 
steAV and four loaves of bread and a 
Santa rig and a Avoman going home for 
.Christmas Avith her grip and all her 
Cfiiristmas ihings. 
We Got There.—W e Avalked about a 
mile and the good Bohemian people let 
us have a horse and an old sled. The 
Bohemian boy and the Parson rigged up 
a harness—one team had gone off eight 
miles for Christmas folks—and Aveut back 
for the car. We hitcluHl the sled to the 
hack of the car and how that little hob¬ 
tailed horse did pull! I’retty quick, 
crack, smash wcut the sled. It Avas get- 
January ID, IDIS 
ting dark and the mercur.v was tumbling 
down toward six below. The Parson 
had wire he AA-as to hang oranges on the 
Christmas tree. This saved the day— 
Ave Avired the sled together At last Ave 
got the car out of the road on a good 
leA'el place, drew off the water and loaded 
the plunder on the sled. As this horse 
had to go sixteen miles yet that night 
to get the head of the house home for 
Christmas, Ave left him and took one that 
Jiad just returned, Aveighing 16.50. and 
hitched to an express Avagon. Nothing 
daunted Ave hitched a Christmas tree be¬ 
hind this Avith all the stuff inside started 
again. Fortunately the church Avas nice 
and Avarm, “George.’’ said the Parson 
to his boy. “the first 'thing that demands 
our attention is that beef stew and bread.” 
They Caaie. —It didn’t seem to the 
I’arson as though anyone Avoiild come that 
night. It Avas so cold and tlie roads so 
bad. But we rang np the old bell and 
got the things on the tree. and. lo and 
behold, they began to come! One party 
got part Avay in a car and loft it in the 
Avoods, Another got there in a car. but 
nothing ‘but a yoke of oxen the next 
morning OA^er got it out of the church 
dooryard. The I’arson counted 50 during 
the evening. What a good time Ave all 
ihad. With lantern iiictures and .singing 
and games and dancing, the evening soon 
Avonfe and none cared for the cold and 
snow, 
Sunday Morning. —The next day the 
boys round about and the Parson trimmed 
np' the church for the season, and Ave had 
our Christmas service, and aftei-Avards 
the rest of that stew and a great thick 
apple pie that u good sister luul brought 
us and then a back-to-the-lander took his 
horse and sled and took us back through 
the AA'oods to the car. A5 e took the st(*AV- 
cau full of hot water and after pouring 
this on the carburetor and the rest made 
tepid with siioav, in the radiator, avc 
cranked her up and off the old car Avont. 
as though rested Avith her cold stay all 
night by the edge of the AA'oods and the 
brook. _ 
Disposing of Sour Bread 
I had a batch of sour bread last Aveok, 
and, considering the cost of flour iioav, I 
hated to consign it to the s\\;ill barrel, 
so decid('d to experiment Avith it. 
The first loaf had to be eaten as it 
was, for I couldn’t make a ueAV batch till 
next day; but it disappeared Avitliout 
grumbling on the children’s part vA’hen I 
told them to play they Avere children of 
the Avar zone and couldn't get anything 
better. 
We are all fond of toast and use it a 
good deal for breakfast, instead of pan¬ 
cakes Avhicli do not agree with us. We 
serve it sometimes with syrup, marma¬ 
lade, or jam. Anything that is good on 
pancakes is good on toast. By making 
dipped toast and adding a scant half tea¬ 
spoon of soda to the Avater in Avhich it 
Avas dipped, the sour bread made as good 
toast as any. The first morning I served 
it merely as creamed toast. The second 
morning I varied this by breaking several 
eggs into the cream sauce and stirring 
till the eggs were scrambled. The next 
morning I stirred some chopped boiled 
meat into a broAvu sauce and serA'ed this 
with the toast. 
Raspberry toast was something of a 
treat, as Avas also chocolate toast. For 
the raspberry toast I take a pint can of 
red or black raspberries, turn into a 
granite basin and set on the fire to heat. 
Stir one-half cup sugar and tAAO table¬ 
spoons of cornstarch together, moisten, 
and stir into the boiling fruit, cooking 
until clear. Slightly butter the toast and 
place in layers in a serving dish, pouring 
some of the sauce over each layer. Any 
sauce Avould do as Avell. We often use 
stcAved rhubarb in the same Avay. 
For the chocolate toast I boil two (or 
more) cups of milk, thicken Avith corn¬ 
starch, sAveoten to taste and add om> 
sipiare of melted chocolate (or tvA'o table¬ 
spoons cocoa mixed Avith the cornstarch 1 
and a spoonful of A'anilla. This is served 
on the toast in the same Avay. 
We also had three bread puddings 
Avliich Avei'C different enough so that no 
one complained of monotony. The first 
Avas an old-fashioned pudding which my 
mother made years ago. My sister re¬ 
cently served this pudding to guests, and 
it Avas apparently so old that it Avas new 
for they liad never heard of it. In the 
case of all three juiddings I first dipped 
the sour broad in cold Avater iu Avhich 
Avas dissolved a little soda. One quart of 
milk, four or fi\'e slices of bread, % cup 
sugar, three egg yolks, one teaspoon 
lemon extract. Stir Avoll together and 
hake till firm. Spread the top thick Avith 
jam and over thi.s a meringue of the egg 
whites. Set back iu the OA'en till the 
meringue is browned. Serve cold. 
The chocolate pudding I made in nearly 
the same Avay ; adding three table.spoons 
of grated chocolate, leaving off the jam 
and meringue and serving Avith SAveeteued 
cream. 
For the third I placed the slices of 
bread in layers iu my baking pan. Be- 
tAvoen each tAvo layers I spread a layer 
of chopped dates and raisins and also on 
the top. Over all I iioured milk, tAvo 
beaten .eggs and one-half cup sugar; 
enough milk to come Avell over the last 
layer. Bake until set. This may he 
served Avith cream or lemon sauce, but 
Ave eat it just as it is. The boy likes a 
dish of one of these puddings fur hi.s 
school dinner, iu place of so many sand¬ 
wiches. ^Y. E. R. 
