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a fireless cooker, paying from $5 to $25 tor it, or she 
may make one, which will cost less than one dollar. Of 
course this is a challenge to make one. You may be 
very sure that if you make a fireless cooker you will un- 
derstand all about it. To make a fireless cooker you 
will need : 
(1) A cooker or container , which should be an agate 
pail with a close fitting cover. No sides should be 
straight up and down, the bottom just as big as the top. 
You can choose a small one holding two quarts, or a gal- 
lon pail which would be large enough for anything an 
ordinary family would be likely to cook. * ; 
(2) A case , which must be at least eight inches wider 
than your container, for the packing must extend at least 
four inches around the pail on every side. You may 
use a round case like a big wooden candy pail, which 
you can usually get at the ten cent store for ten cents ; or 
it may be a galvanized iron can with a cover like the one 
ordinarily used for garbage; or it may be a box shaped 
like a cube. 
(3) For packing you may use crumpled newspapers 
tightly packed in ; or ground cork, which is used in pack- 
ing Malaga grapes, is fine, and you may be able to get 
it from a fruit store. Excelsior is good, and perhaps 
you will find that in the shed in some packing case ; while, 
if you live in the country, you may be able to get Spanish 
moss. This should be dried, of course. And then there 
is hay— which our Norwegian cousins use. 
Let us try paper. Pack the box or can four inches 
deep, with crumpled paper, making a very even layer. 
Put a piece of pasteboard much larger than the bottom of 
your pail upon this layer and set your pail in the middle 
of it. Now pack the paper tightly around the pail up 
to the very top, using a stick of wood or mallet to press it 
down. 
