THE BETTER WAY

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 51, 28 August 1926, Page 17

THE BETTER WAY

(By M.R.C.)

'' Cook is out of the way—what fun!" said Grace to herself. '''I will make the apple dumplings for her."

Very soon each apple was wrapped in paste and popped in the oven. Then Grace ran away before cook came back.

"Dear me," said Grace's mother at dinner time. "These dumplings seem very strange. I must see cook about them."

"I don't know who made them, Ma'am," said cook. "When I came back from the butcher's shop they were in the oven. I thought you must have made them for me."

"Oh, Mummy, I made them. I thought I would help cook. I just mixed the flour and water into a paste and wrapped pieces round each apple. I'm so sorry they are not nice. 1'

"Never mind, dearie," said cook. "Just you come into the kitchen tomorrow and I'll show you the proper way to make them; maybe we will find time to make some toffee, too."

Next day, true to her word, Cook gave Grace a lesson in making dumplings. As soon as dinner was finished Grace ran back to the kitchen and spent a busy afternoon making toffee.

"Look, Mummy," she said later, as she proudly showed a plate of delicious looking sweets. "You and daddy and I are going to eat all this. That nasty Janie did not give me any of tho chocolates that TJncle Harry gave her yesterday."

"Still," said Mummy, "if you were a nice little sister you would keep some for Janie."

"But I don't think that's fair, Janie kept all hers."

"But did you like Janie keeping her chocolates for herself?"

"I did not like it at all, and I want her not to like it, too. I think she is very mean."

"Dear, dear; and is Mummy to have two mean little girls, then?" Grace looked at her mother, and was quiet for a minute. Then she said: "No, no! You shall not have any mean girls at all! I expect Janie forgot; I will go and give her some of my toffeo now, and then perhaps she won't over forget again."