Then came suggestions: a stone saucepan, scoop out a stone and put it on the fire, build a stone pan and fix the stones with cherry gum, dig a hole in the ground and put fire under; "that would be a kind of oven."

Mode.Choose rather large apples; peel them and take out the cores, either with a scoop or a small silver knife, and put into each apple 2 cloves and as much sifted sugar as they will hold.

When cold, scoop out the middle, leaving a good thickness all round the sides, to prevent them breaking; take some of the scooped-out pieces, which should be trimmed into neat slices; lay them in the cake, and pour over sufficient raisin-wine, with the addition of a little brandy, if approved, to soak them well.

"The right halfmight be 'rice-scoop,'

And he read off, slowly: "A Hakka boat on opposite shore; a green flag and a rice-scoop hoisted at her mast; light a fire on the water-gate steps, and she will come quickly, day or night.

That flash of the pearls was the cleverest trick I ever heard of; but it didn't go, I'd warned the judge to look out for a scoop.

Then it is that one would like to imitate the mode of life of the native at Sierra Leone, as somebody has described it: stroll into the market in natural costume,buy a watermelon for a halfpenny,split it, and scoop out the middle,sit down in one half of the empty rind, clap the other on one's head, and feast upon the pulp.

The great thing was to keep the "syndicate" together, and to delay our departure until Latimer had had time to scoop the lot of us.

As our supplies were now reduced to less than three days, our march the next morning was ordered for 10 A.M., in order to allow foraging parties to go out at daybreak to scoop in anything they could find.

This last form is handy for storks, which do not pluck fish out of water so much, but scoop up frogs, crabs, and reptiles from the ground.

But it is a social beast, and it wants to catch the bellowing of its fellows far across the foggy waste of ice-floes; and that little leather scoop standing behind the ear-hole seems to be just the instrument required to catch and send down those sounds which would otherwise glance off the glossy fur and never find entrance to the tiny orifice at all.

She was wearing a long sleeved turquoise jersey with a revealing scoop neck.

I got out my knife, took a scoop out of the clay wall, and fishing out a candle-end from my pocket, stuck it in the niche, lit it and a cigarette.

I saw the handle of something like a broom or a water scoop moving above the sandbags.

I plunged into this unwholesome clay ditch and went along, each step taking me up to my thighs in soft dark ooze, whilst here and there the water was so deep as to force me to scoop out holes in the clay at the side when, by leaning against the opposite side, with my feet in the holes, I could slowly push my way along.

At the gate was Prudence Corson, gowned for travel, reticule in hand, her prettiness shadowed, under the scoop of her bonnet, the toe of one trim little boot meditatively rolling a pebble over the ground.

" She tossed her yellow head ever so slightly, and turned the scoop of her bonnet a little away from his pain-lighted face.

There was nothing in the boat but two oars which had not slipped out of their rowlocks, a leather scoop which had been tied to a thwart, and the aforementioned water.

A big scoop this for the Government.

(Pub. abroad in The Sunday express, London, Nov. 6-Dec. 4, 1938 issues as The full frank story of Edgar Wallace, 6Nov38, AI-24853; The boyhood of Edgar Wallace, 13Nov38, AI-24854; Edgar Wallace's first great romance, 20Nov38, AI-24855; How Edgar Wallace fixed his scoop, 27Nov38, AI-24856; Best-seller that nearly ruined Edgar Wallace, 4Dec38, AI-24857)

Cut the crust from a loaf of bread, scoop out the center, brush with butter and brown in the oven.

STUFFED TOMATOES Select tomatoes of uniform size, cut a slice from the stem end and scoop out a portion of the pulp.

POTATO SURPRISE Take large potatoes, parboil without peeling, cut a small piece of one end of the potato and scoop out the inside.

MONTEREY SALAD Select fine lemons, wipe carefully, scoop out the pulp, remove the tough inner skin and seeds, and to the rest add one box of boneless sardines, finely chopped, one teaspoon of French mustard, two hard-boiled eggs chopped, some tabasco sauce, and mayonnaise.

Place on an attractive dish, scoop out the juice and pulp with a spoon and sweeten if necessary.