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<h2>CHAPTER XXI</h2> <div class='chaptertitle'>THE PICNIC</div> <div class="figright"> <ANTIMG src="images/i138a.jpg" width-obs="104" height-obs="170" alt=""To the circus?"" title="" /></div> <div class='cap'>"CAN'T guess where I'm going to-day," laughed Mary Frances, coming into the kitchen next morning.</div> <p>"To the circus?" guessed Sauce Pan.</p> <p>Mary Frances shook her head.</p> <p>"Not to-day."</p> <p>"To the fair?" guessed Coffee Pot.</p> <p>"No!"</p> <p>"To the Zo-ol-og-ic-al Garden," guessed Sauce Pan, again, beginning to recite:</p> <div class='poem'> "'The Pan-Cans went to the Zoo,<br/> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">It long had been their wish</span><br/> To see the Baking Panimals<br/> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">With the wildly Chafing Dish.'"</span><br/></div> <div class="figleft"> <ANTIMG src="images/i138b.jpg" width-obs="280" height-obs="177" alt=""Wrong! All wrong!"" title="" /></div> <p>"Wrong!" laughed Mary Frances. "All wrong!—Perhaps this will help you guess"—opening the cook book.</p> <p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_136" id="Page_136">[136]</SPAN></span></p> <div class="center"><span class="smcap">No. 28.—Stuffed Eggs.</span></div> <div class="blockquot"> <p>1. Hard-boil eggs.</p> <p>2. Drop into cold water. Remove shells.</p> <p>3. Cut each in half lengthwise.</p> <p>4. Turn out yolks into a bowl.</p> <p>5. Carefully place whites together in pairs.</p> <p>6. Mash yolks with back of a spoon.</p> <p>7. For every 6 yolks, put into the bowl</p> <div class='center'> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" summary="Ingredients"> <tr><td align='left'>1 tablespoon olive oil or melted butter</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>½ teaspoon mustard (the kind prepared for table)</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>½ teaspoon salt</td></tr> <tr><td align='left'>dash cayenne pepper</td></tr> </table></div> <p>8. Rub these together thoroughly with the yolks.</p> <p>9. Make little balls of this paste, the size of the yolks.</p> <p>10. Fit one ball into each pair whites.</p> </div> <div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Note.</span>—If used for table, serve with White Sauce poured around them. If used for picnic, wrap waxed paper around each until needed.</p> </div> <div class="figright"> <ANTIMG src="images/i139a.jpg" width-obs="111" height-obs="225" alt="Stuffed Eggs." title="" /></div> <p>"It's a picnic! It's a picnic!" cried the Kitchen People.</p> <p>"Yes!" explained Mary Frances, "that's it! Aunt Maria is giving me a picnic to 'celebrate my ambition,' she says—whatever that means. Anyhow, Father's coming. He's going to make up for the lunch he couldn't come to. I'm so happy!"</p> <div class="figleft"> <ANTIMG src="images/i139b.jpg" width-obs="282" height-obs="189" alt=""It's a picnic!"" title="" /></div> <p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_137" id="Page_137">[137]</SPAN></span></p> <p>"So'm I! Goody! Goody! I'm all ready!"</p> <p>Mary Frances turned.</p> <p>"If it isn't Basket!" she cried. "I had no idea you——"</p> <p>"That I wanted to go?" asked Basket proudly. "My family are the most important 'picnickers' at any picnic! We always go!"</p> <p>"Well, to be sure!" exclaimed Mary Frances. "Here, wait—these eggs will be ready in a minute!"</p> <p>"Tuck the napkin in carefully, please," said Basket. "I won't spill them out. Anything else?"</p> <p>"No," said Mary Frances. "Aunt Maria said I could bring just one thing—and to surprise everybody; so I have not told anyone what I am going to bring. I wonder if——"</p> <div class="figleft"> <ANTIMG src="images/i140a.jpg" width-obs="112" height-obs="219" alt=""I—want—to—go!"" title="" /></div> <p>But her thought was cut short by Coffee Pot's crying excitedly: "I want to go! I want to go! I—want—to—go! go! go! go! I want to go—go—go—go!—go—go!"</p> <p>"Oh, you can't go!" said Sauce Pan. "Why—you!—you'd—you—you'd——"</p> <div class="figright"> <ANTIMG src="images/i140b.jpg" width-obs="401" height-obs="184" alt=""Goody! Goody! I'm all ready!"" title="" /></div> <p>"That will do," said Mary Frances. "I'll take you, Coffee Pot. Maybe Aunt Maria's little coffee<span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_138" id="Page_138">[138]</SPAN></span> pot won't be large enough for all of the picnic. Eleanor and Bob are going with us!"</p> <div class="figleft"> <ANTIMG src="images/i141a.jpg" width-obs="112" height-obs="422" alt="fields" title="" /></div> <p>Coffee Pot looked tri-umph-ant-ly at Sauce Pan, but seemed too happy to say anything.</p> <p>"Good-bye, Kitchen People," said Mary Frances, "I wish I could take you all."</p> <p>"Good-bye," cried the Kitchen People; "hope you'll have a lovely time!"</p> <p>"I'd be scared," said Sauce Pan, glancing at Coffee Pot. "Who knows what's in the woods?" And as Mary Frances closed the door, he was singing:</p> <div class='poem'> "'If polar bears were everywheres,<br/> <span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">And leopards came to tea,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">And fearful bats and gnawing gnats</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">All came to eat with me,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">And giant snakes ate all the cakes,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">What a "picnic" that would be!'"</span><br/> <br/> <span style="margin-left: 6.5em;">"Boo!!!"</span><br/></div> <div class="figcenter"> <ANTIMG src="images/i141b.jpg" width-obs="526" height-obs="292" alt=""I'll take you, Coffee Pot."" title="" /></div> <hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_139" id="Page_139">[139]</SPAN></span></p> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />

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