Put the preserving-pan upon the fire with the solution; stir it with a wooden spatula, and, when it begins to swell and boil up, throw in some cold water or a little oil, to damp the boiling; for, as it rises suddenly, if it should boil over, it would take fire, being of a very inflammable nature.

There were stuffed birds on broken perches; and dried lizards, and eels, and little alligators, and old skulls with their crowns sawed off, and ten thousand odd scraps of writing-paper strewn with crumbs of lonely lunches, and interspersed with long-lost spatulas and rust-eaten lancets.

Work with broad spatula until candy begins to get firm, add chopped almonds and pack into greased tin or between bars.

Another method of mixing is the following:Put the water into the basin first and stir the meal quickly into it with a spatula or wooden spoon.

shovel, trowel, spoon, spatula, ladle, dipper, tablespoon, watch glass, thimble.

Each comes armed with a coorpee,this is a small metal spatula, broad-pointed, with which they dig out the weeds with amazing deftness.

The spatula and pill-roller were crusted with deposits of every hue.

She held a spatula in front of her.

Aerate by pouring from one vessel to another several times, or by whipping up with a spoon or spatula.

The spine projects back in a thick mass, and terminates in a spatula-shaped tail, naked and scale-form.

At first he thought it great fun, and he hummed some of the popular melodies of the day, and kept time with his foot and the spatula.

Over the hot, rusty stove hung Arnold, red-faced and bright-eyed, armed with a long, wooden spatula which he continually dug into the steaming contents of an enormous white-lined kettle.

Arnold stopped stirring the pot and stood motionless, his eyes fixed on the narrator, the spatula dripping tomato-juice all along his white trousers.

Shaped like a druggist's spatula or a flattened spoon.

"There's a lance-shaped leaf that is sharp at the base instead of the point; that's named 'ob-lanceolate'; and there's one called 'spatulate' that looks like the spatula that druggists mix things with.

Spatula rhynchotis.

Two spatula or leveling knives.

Remove layers at once with a spatula.

With a spatula remove each dumpling from the ring, place on dish with the crust side down.

LIME CALABASH AND SPATULA.

The spatula used by betel chewers to introduce the lime to the mouth, although often made of tortoise-shell and resembling that figured above, is more commonly made of coconut-wood, with a massive handle, deeply divided by a slit, and when struck upon the knee it is made to produce a loud clicking noise like that of castanets.

A small portion of the green betelnut (the fruit of the Areca catechu) which here curiously enough is named erekais broken off with the teeth and placed in the mouth; then the spatula, formerly described, moistened with saliva, is dipped into a small calabash of lime in fine powder, with which the tongue and lips are smeared over by repeated applications.

Among other articles of native manufacture I may mention large baked earthen pots* used in cooking, also very neatly made round flat-bottomed baskets in sets of four, partially fitting into each other, with a woven belt to suspend them from the shoulders byin these various small articles are carried, among them the spatula and calabash, with lime to be used in betel chewingand a netted bag, a foot and a half in width and one in depth.

All our visitors had their teeth darkened with the practice of betel chewingwe saw them use the leaf of the betel pepper, the green areca nut, and lime, the last carried in a small calabash with a spatula.