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XVII EXAMINATION DAY 244
INDEX 253

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

"Such a lovely picnic" _Frontispiece_
Jack fried the "Cheese Dreams" 38
Brownie and Mildred making "Chocolate Crackers" 47
Making "Orange Baskets" 65
Arranging a small round tray in front of her mother's place 76
She looked carefully in the oven through a tiny crack 85
The refreshments were perfectly delicious, everybody said 99
"Here comes Jack with the berries, just in time" 114
The first supper in camp 123
Jack gets breakfast 134
The next day was perfect for fishing 139
Roasting corn over a bed of coals 145
"But, Norah, if you can't begin till you know how" 156
"I am so proud I want everybody to see my jam" 165
"This candy ought to be at least a dollar a pound" 231
Selling candy at the Christmas fair 241

THE FUN OF COOKING

CHAPTER I

THE DAY BEFORE CHRISTMAS

The Blairs were a particularly nice family. That is what the neighbors
always said of them, and, to tell the truth, the Blairs believed it.
That is, the father and mother thought the children were particularly
nice, and the children thought their father and mother and each other
particularly nice; and so, of course, they all must have been very nice
indeed.

Saturdays and Sundays and vacation days were all holidays to them, and
they did such interesting things, and laughed so much as they did them,
that everybody said, "What good times those Blairs do have!"

Jack and Mildred Blair were named after their father and mother, and
Brownie, whose real name was Katharine, was named for her grandmother;
so to avoid getting everybody mixed, the children were called the Junior
Blairs by everybody.

Now it happened that there were ever so many uncles and aunts and
cousins who were Blairs, too, but most of them lived a long way off, and
they were very seldom able to get together for a family party; but this
w