ou put up your own pickles, don't you?"

"Yes, I do," said Miss Sally, who was now walking toward where the
ladies were unpacking the lunch. "Why do you ask it?"

"It called to my mind the recipe for making pickles that is in Jarby's
Encyclopedia," said Eliph', unmindful of the look of anger that flushed
Miss Sally's face at the mention of that book. "Them that has tried
it says it is the best they have ever used. That and seven hundred and
ninety-nine other tested recipes, all contained in the chapter called
'The Complete Kitchen Guide,' see page 100, including roasts, fries,
pastry, cakes, bread, puddings, entrees, soups, how to make candy, how
to clean brass, copper, silver, tin, et cetery, et cetery. Them that
uses Jarby's tested recipes as given in this volume, uses no other."

There was a stiffening of Miss Sally's back as she walked ahead of him,
and even Eliph' Hewlitt could not fail to observe it. It told plainly
that if he could have seen her lips he would have seen them close
firmly, and he made haste to reassure her.

"I ain't trying to sell you a book," he said, taking a quicker step to
reach her side, but she hurried the more as he did so, and crowded in
among the other women so that he could not follow. He stood a moment
watching her, but she began talking rapidly to one of the women,
ignoring him conspicuously, and he coughed gently behind his hand, as if
to apologize for her affront, and then walked away.

He could not account for his poor success in getting well acquainted
with Miss Sally, and he began to fear that he had not fully understood
the directions given by Jarby's Encyclopedia in the chapter on
"Courtship--How to Win the Affections." He realized that he had used
that chapter less often in talking up a sale than he had used any other,
and that for that reason he had studied it less closely, and he saw
now, more than ever, that there was no chapter in the whole book that a
possessor could afford to neglect. He walked over to where the minister
was still holding the book, but now holding it closed in his lap, and
he asked politely if he might have it for a few minutes. The minister
handed it to him, and Eliph', walking to where one of the smaller trees
of the grove made a spot of shade, seated himself, and fixed his eyes on
the chapter on "Courtship--How to Win the Affections."

For the first time in his life he was unable to fix his attention firmly
on the pages of Jarby's Encyclopedia. Hi