It should bubble up in the saucepan, and there should be enough of
it to cover the wire basket in which the delicately sliced potatoes are
laid--a few at time--to cook. They will not absorb fat, because the
heat, when the first touch of it is given, will form a tight skin over
them, and the grease cannot pierce this. They will be daintily brown,
firm and dry.
But this isn't telling of our candy pull.
We had set our hearts on having fun and doing good--killing two birds
with one stone, as Al Fay said. But I do not approve of that proverb,
for certainly no _girl_ ever wishes to kill a bird; no more does a
decent boy think of such a thing.
We resolved to have a fair and to sell candy at it, making every bit
ourselves.
Therefore we had sent out some invitations to girls not of the club, and
to some of the nicest boys. They were as follows:
The Clover Leaf Club of Bloomdale requests the pleasure of your
company at the house of Miss Jeanie Cartwright, on Friday evening,
September 8, at eight o'clock. Candy pull.
MILLY VAN DOREN,
_President._
LOIS PARTRIDGE,
_Secretary._
I had my doubts all day as to whether it would be right for me to go;
but about four o'clock Aunt Hetty, looking as well as ever, came out of
her room in a stiffly starched gingham gown, and proceeded to cook for
herself a rasher of bacon and some eggs.
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