tle pepper and dot with very little bits of butter. When the
dish is full pour over it a cupful of milk and sift fine crumbs
over the top, and add some more bits of butter. Bake for three
quarters of an hour.

Like the oysters this dish was made ready in the afternoon, all but
putting on the milk and crumbs.

"You don't need a receipt for cocoa, do you?" Miss Betty stopped to ask.

"No, indeed; we can make that with our eyes shut," laughed Mildred.

"Then we will go on to the sandwiches. Here are two kinds which are very
good with oysters, and perhaps they may possibly give you ghost-dreams;
I hope they will!"

TOMATO AND CHEESE SANDWICHES

Scald and peel some tomatoes and put them on ice till firm; then
slice very thin indeed, and take out all the soft part and seeds;
sprinkle with a little salt. Slice some white bread thin and
butter it; lay a slice of tomato on a slice of bread and on top
put a very thin slice of cheese--just a scraping of it; add the
other slice of bread, press together and cut into attractive
shape.

"I just happened to see the remains of that cold boiled ham you
evidently had left over from yesterday, sitting in the refrigerator and
looking lonely, so I planned these, which are much better than the
common kind:"

DEVILED HAM SANDWICHES

Put some cold cooked ham through the meat chopper till smooth; add
a very little dry mustard, a tiny pinch of black pepper and a very
tiny one of red pepper. To a small cupful of the meat add two
tablespoonfuls of melted butter and press into a cup; when cold
spread this on buttered bread.

"My, those sound good," murmured Jack to himself, "and they sound like
Hallowe'en, too."

"So they do," laughed Mother Blair, beginning to slice the bread and
spread it. "Let's make them now and put them on ice, all rolled up in a
wet napkin."

She and Brownie went to work, but Mildred said she was not quite ready
yet. "I want another chafing-dish rule," she said. "Two are not enough,
and they are all we have for our books."

"Well, just one or two more, and then I must fly," said Miss Betty; "you
see I have to get the things for my own special receipt for the party.
Here is a good one:"

PANNED OYSTERS, CREAMED

Take four oysters for each person. Make some slices of toast,
butter them and cut them into rounds just the size to fit into the
bottom of little brown baking