When ready to put the prepared fruit in the jars slip a broad skimmer under a jar and lift it and drain free of water.

Forgetting everything in her fear of being overheard, she went softly, with the dripping skimmer in her hand, across the kitchen, the fat falling on her shining floor at every step, and closed the door.

"Why, that," cried Barbara, all to herself and her uplifted skimmer, looking after them,"that must be the brother from West Point the Inglesides expected,that young Dakie Thayne!"

Keep constantly turning the onions about with a wooden skimmer, those at the bottom to the top, and vice versâ; and let the milk and water run through the holes of the skimmer.