Make a border of fried bread round the dish, lay in the fish, sprinkle over with bread crumbs, and baste with butter.

" Dotty appeared at table with smooth hair and a fresh ruffle which Prudy had basted in the neck of her dress.

"It's the captain hoisting up the big baste of a hog, for provisioning the hoose, ag'in a saige," whispered Mike to the negroes, who grinned as they tugged; "and when the cr'atur squails, see to it, that ye do not squail yerselves.

He calls hisself a 'son of the poor'atin's,' and poor 'ating it must have been, in the counthry of his faders, to have produced so lane and skinny a baste as that same.

" "Yes, sir, I am afther urging on the bastes for the last piece or two; but the crathurs have come so far, they don't know, sure, if they be jist laying home, or afther a raching there.

When neck is stuffed, sew up larger end, lay it in a pudding-pan, pour a little cold water over it, set in stove and baste from time to time.

" "Oh yis, as well as a dacent woman could do wid a drunken baste about the place like the lahst coachman.

SALLY If you fed that baste on honey, she'd turn on you.