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Cobbett, who shows his knowledge of boys, by saying that they love a bonfire. The carcass is laid on a truss of straw; fire is set to it to windward; then, aftes turning the pig, any bristles left are burnt off with torches of blazing straw. The burning complete, it is well broomed, washed with cold water, and well scraped with a knife as a final shave. At the killing, blood is taken for blackpudding. After opening, the "fry" is thrown into cold water for speedy use, and the chitterlings cleansed. Some leave the opened pig hanging all night to cool and stiffen; others, seizing time by the forelock, kill before daybreak, and cut up after sunset by candlelight. The pig is halved, and then cut up into convenient pieces of from three to five pounds each, reserving often the hams, head, feet and tail, for special treats, and perhaps also a few roasting pieces. The head-i. e., the chops (after removing the brains, ears, nostrils and tongue, to stew with the tail)-may be salted with the rest; the hams also (left entire), as they are not often smoked or pickled with treacle. The feet are boiled tender, and broiled as tid-bits. For a pig weighing two hundred pounds, take thirty pounds of coarse common salt, two ounces of ground pepper, and four ounces of mixed spices, ground. Mix these well together, and with them rub well each piece of pork. At the bottom of the salting-tub (made of oak, with a cover) pack a layer of pork closely together, sprinkle it with the salt and spice; then another layer of pork, and so on, till it is all packed in the tub. Sprinkle the remaining salt on the top; pour in a pint of cold water, to draw the melting salt through the meat. Put on the cover, and see how it is going on every now and then. The pork may remain in pickle from four to six months; it is then best to take it out to dry on a wicker hurdle, in a dry and airy part of the house, where it will lie in a single layer ready for use.

WASHING CLOTHES.—If pipe-clay is dissolved in the water, the linen is thoroughly cleansed with half the labor and fully a saving of one-fourth of soap; and the clothes will be improved in color equally as if bleached. The pipe-clay softens the hardest water. A cent's worth to four gallons of water. TO KEEP MOTHS FROM FUR AND WOOLLEN CLOTHES.-In May brush fur and woollen clothes, wrap them tightly up in linen, and put them away in drawers. Pepper or red cedar chips are good preservatives from moths, but camphor is the best.

WASHING CHINTZES.-These should always be washed in dry weather, but if it is very cold it is better to dry them by the fire than risk spoiling the colors from freezing in the open air. It is better, if possible, to defer their washing till the weather is suitable.

TO CLEAN PAINT.-Simmer together in a pipkin one pound of soft soap, two ounces of pearlash, one pint of sand, and one pint of table-beer; to be used as soap.

ANOTHER WAY.-Grate to a fine pulp four potatoes to every quart of water; stir it; then let it settle, and pour off the liquor. To be used with a sponge. COFFEE AS IN FRANCE.-Coffee should be roasted of a cinnamon color, ani

coarsely ground when cool. For one pint of boiling water take two ounces and a half of coffee. Put the coffee into boiling water; close the coffee-pot, and leave it for two hours on a trivet over the fire, so as to keep up the heat without making it boil. Stir now and then, and after two hours remove it from over the fire, and allow it a quarter of an hour to stand near the fire, to settle. Then pour it off to serve. Loaf sugar should be used for coffee.

WASH-LEATHER GLOVES. -The grease spots should be first removed by rubbing them with magnesia, cream of tartar, or Wilmington clay scraped to powder. Make a lather of soap and water, put the gloves into the water lukewarm, as hot water will shrink them; wash and squeeze them through this, then squeeze them through a second sud. Rinse in lukewarm water, then in cold, and dry them in a hot sun or before the fire, well stretching them, to preven hem from shrinking.

ANOTHER WAY.-Place the gloves on the hands, and rub them with a soft sponge in lukewarm soap-suds. Wash off the soap-suds in clear water. Pull and stretch them, and put them in the sun, or before the fire, to prevent them from shrinking. When nearly dry, put them again on your hands, and keep them on till quite dry.

TO MEND CHINA.-A very fine cement may be made by boiling down a little isinglass, and afterwards adding to it about half the quantity of spirits of wine, which should be applied while warm. This cement is especially valuable in mending glass, as it is free from any opaque appearance. A very strong cement may be made in the following manner, and kept for application at any time:-Heat a piece of white flint stone to a white heat, and cast it, while at this heat, into a vessel of cold water, which will reduce it to a fine powder. Carefully preserve this flint powder, and mix it with rosin to the consistency of thick paste. The rosin should be heated in an earthenware pipkin. To apply this cement, heat the edges of the pieces of the article to be mended, rub upon them this cement, and place them neatly and well together. When dry, scrape off all excrescence of the cement, when the article will be perfect.

DAMP WALLS.-Boil two quarts of tar with two ounces of kitchen grease in an iron saucepan for quarter of an hour; to this mixture add some slaked lime and very finely-pounded glass, which has previously been through a hair-sieve. The proportions should be two parts lime to one of glass, worked to the thickness of a thin plaster. This cement must be used as soon as made, or else it will become too hard. One coat, about an inch thick, has generally answered the purpose, but if the wall is very damp, it may receive two coats. the cement or plaster, and paper may be used to cover it.

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A PLEASANT STRENGTHENING DRINK.-Boil very gently in a saucepan the following ingredients:-The rind of a lemon, a small piece of cinnamon, and a teaspoonful of pearl barley, in about one pint of cold water. When the barley is tender, strain through a fine sieve, and sweeten with a spoonful of treacla honey, or sugar, according to taste.

TO RESTORE PLATED CRUET-STANds, CandlestickS, ETC., WHEN THE SIL VER IS WORN OFF.-Purchase at the chemist's four cents' worth of mercury, and two cents' worth of prepared chalk, mixed as a powder. Half the chalk may be used. Make it into a paste with a little water, in a saucer, and with a small piece of leather rub the article until the tarnish quite disappears. Polish with a leather. If this powder is used about once a week to plated articles, when worn, they will be kept as white as silver.

FRECKLES.—To remove freckles, take one ounce of lemon-juice, a quarter of a drachm of powdered borax, and half a drachm of sugar; mix, and let them stand a few days in a glass bottle, then rub it on the face and hands occasionally. POTATO BREAD.-Boil the required quantity of mealy potatoes in their skins; drain, dry, and then peel them. Crush them on a board with a rolling-pin, till they are a stiff paste without lumps. Then mix your yeast with them, and flour equal in quantity to the potatoes. Add water enough to make the whole into dough, and knead the mass well. When risen, set into a gentle oven. Do not close the door immediately, but bake a little longer than for ordinary bread. Without these precautions the crust will be hard and brittle, while the inside still remains moist and pasty. Other flours can be in like manner made into bread with a mixture of potatoes, but they are best cooked as cakes on the hearth, or in the way given below for potato cake. In Scotland oatmeal is frequently mixed with wheaten flour in making cakes, and in the west of Ireland with maize flour in making stirabout.

POTATO CAKE. Very acceptable to children at supper, especially if they have had the fun of seeing it made. Cold potatoes, if dry and floury, will serve for this. If you have none, boil some, as for potato bread. Crush them with butter and salt; mix in a small proportion of flour (wheaten, oaten, rye, or maize) and a little yeast (the last may be omitted at pleasure), and with milk work the whole to the consistency of very firm dough. Roll it out to the thickness of an inch and a half or two inches. Cut it out the size of your frying-pan, the bottom of which you smear with grease, and in it lay your cake, after flouring it all over. Bake, covered with a plate, on the trivet of your stove, over a gentle fire, or better on the hearth, when wood is burnt. Shake and shift it a little from time to time, to prevent burning. When half done, turn it, and cover with a plate again. Other cakes of unfermented pastes may be baked in the same way.

TO CLEAN FURNITURE.—The cleaning of furniture should depend on the mode in which the furniture was originally polished. The method at present most generally adopted is French polishing, and in such case a little spirits of turpentine should be employed, which will clear off grease and dirt without softening the varnish; it should, however, be rapidly done. If the furniture was originally polished with furniture-paste-composed of beeswax dissolved in spirits of turpentine by means of heat, and a little copal varnish, or resin (finely powdered), with a little Indian red added-it should be renovated by the same

composition. In the case of furniture polished with oil, renovating (commonly termed cleaning) should be effected by means of linseed oil, slightly colored by a little alkanet root, which dissolves in oil aided by slight heat.

TO CLEAN DIRTY OR STAINED FURNITURE.-If the furniture is in a bad state, but not stained, it will be sufficient to cleanse it by well washing with spirits of turpentine, and afterwards polishing with linseed oil colored with alkanet root. When, however, the furniture is stained or inky, it should be washed with sour beer or vinegar, warm; afterwards rubbing the stains with spirit of salts, rubbed on with a piece of rag, which will remove all the stains. The wood may then be polished, either with linseed oil colored with alkanet root, or with beeswax, dissolved in turpentine, with a little copal varnish or resin added.

TO RENDER NEW MAHOGANY LIKE OLD.-This is of service in the cases of furniture repaired, or when lacquered handles have been changed for mahogany ones. Soap and water will darken to some extent; but if darker is required, use oil; or for very dark, lime-water.

TO CLEAN LACQUERED BRASS-WORK OF FURNITURE.-Wash in warm water, using a soft rag. If the work will not clean by this means, it must be re-lacquered.

TO MAKE COLORED Drawings or Prints RESEMBLE OIL-PAINTINGS.-This is a favorite plan of treating pictures, as it gives them a showy appearance, and prevents their requiring glasses. Wash over the drawing or print with a solution of isinglass, and when dry, apply with a very fine soft brush a varnish, composed of two parts of spirit of turpentine and one of Canada balsam, mixed together.

ASPHALTE FOR GARDEN-WALKS, FOWL-HOUSES, SHEDS, ETC.-Having laid the walk quite even, and beaten it firm, pour upon it a coat of hot tar; while hot, sift thickly all over it road-dust or cinder-ashes. When cold, repeat the same process several times, and a good, hard, durable, and wholesome flooring will be effected. It is particularly recommended for the purpose of fowl-houses, as being very healthy to the stock.

TO SHARPEN AND TEMPER SAWS AND EDGED TOOLS.-Many good saws have been spoiled by persons attempting to sharpen them without sufficient knowledge. of how to do it. A file should be run along the edge of the teeth until they range evenly, after which the blade should be laid on a smooth leaden surface, and a moderate rap given on every alternate tooth by means of a square steel punch and a hammer, turning the blade then on the other side, and repeating the process, taking care to see that the teeth are equally set. This done, the teeth may be sharpened by the file, beginning at the handle-end of the sawblade. The file should form, with the saw-blade, about two-thirds of a mitre angle, and be held at an opposite inclination for every alternate tooth, each tooth being brought to a good sharp point. In good tools the quality of the steel is alike throughout. It is desirable to observe, in purchasing tools, that they be rather too hard than soft, as the temper will become reduced by wearing. To temper a tool: Having brightened its surface, melt sufficient lead to immerse

the cutting part of the tool, into which place it for a few minutes, until it be comes hot enough to melt tallow, with which rub it, and then replace it in the melting lead until it becomes of a straw color. Should you chance to let it remain until it turns blue, rub it with tallow and let it cool: then repeat the process. Should you, after this operation, find the tool too soft, repeat the process without using tallow; and when at the temperature above directed, plunge it into very cold water, or vinegar and water. A saw may be tempered in the same way, but it requires to let it remain a little longer in the metal, until beginning to become blue; as, in this condition, steel is more elastic and sufficiently hard.

TO REPAIR BROKEN WALLS.-Mix with water equal parts of plaster of Paris and white house-sand, with which stop the broken place in the wall.

TO CLEAN LOOKING-Glasses.-Having dusted the glass with a soft duster quite free from grit, in order not to scratch the glass, sponge it with diluted spirits of wine or gin, and dust over it a little very fine powder through a muslin bag; rub the glass, with a light hand, with the soft duster, and finish off with a soft piece of silk, or old handkerchief.

TO CLEAN STONe Steps and StAIRS.-Where there are large flights of ston steps and flagged pathways, the process of cleaning is a long and tedious one. The common method of cleaning with hearthstone, or caked whitening, not only gives a smeary appearance, but washes off with a shower of rain. The preparation which we here give not only has a great preference in appearance. but in the long run saves labor; as with it twice a week is sufficient for whitening, and the remaining days washing will be found sufficient. Take a gallor of water, and color to the intensity of deep-colored blue water with stone-blue. Boil in it a pound of white size, and dissolve in it a quarter of a pound of whitening and three cakes of pipe-clay, stirring it well about. Wash over the steps with this solution in a slight, quick manner, and afterwards finish with clean water in the usual way.

TO LOOSEN GLASS STOPPERS.—A very common source of trouble and vexa tion is the fixed stopper of a smelling-bottle, or of a decanter; and as in the case of all frequent evils many methods have been devised for its remedy. Some of these methods we shall enumerate. 1. Hold the bottle or decanter firmly in the hand, or between the knees, and gently tap the stopper on alternate sides, using for the purpose a small piece of wood, and directing the strokes upward. 2. Plunge the neck of the vessel into hot water, taking care that the water is not hot enough to split the glass. If after some immersion the stopper is still fixed, recur to the first process. 3. Pass a piece of list round the neck of the vessel, which must be held fast while two persons draw the list backwards and forwards. This will warm the glass, and often enable the hand to turn the stopper. 4. Warm the neck of the vessel before the fire, and when it is nearly hot, the stopper can be generally moved. 5. Put a few drops of oil round the stopper where it enters the glass vessel, which may then be warmed before the

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