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make the cake. I should like nothing better. It would be great fun."
"Great fun! Now that is what one says who knows nothing about it. It
would be better to go without any cake at all than to place before our
friends some that they cannot eat," replied the tired mother.
"When I was at Aunt Fanny's," said Ruth, "she taught me how to make

a kind of cake that we all liked. Uncle John said he could eat all I could
make. Do let me try, mother dear."
"Oh, Ruth, what a tease you are. Well, it will keep you quiet for a while
and I suppose you must learn somehow."
Then Ruth ran into the kitchen in high glee. First she looked at the fire
in the stove as Aunt Fanny had taught her to do. More coal was needed.
So she had to go down cellar and bring up as much as she could in the
hod. She opened the draughts and put on a little coal at first. When that
had kindled she put on a little more. She took a whisk and swept out the
stove oven. Then she put more water into the kettle on on top of the
stove. Soon it was time to close the draughts. She put her hand into the
oven to feel how hot it was just as she had seen her Aunt Fanny do.
[Illustration]
When the stove was as she wanted it, Ruth ran out to the barn and
found four warm eggs in nests among the hay. These she brought into
the house, and breaking them into a bowl, began to beat them up
quickly. Next she took a yellow dish from the dresser and put into it
one cup of butter and two cups of sugar. For a long time she mixed
these two together until they were "all one," as she called it.
Next she put the four beaten eggs into the bowl with the butter and
sugar, and beat them until her little hands ached. Then she measured
out three cups of flour and sifted it into another dish. With this she put
two teaspoonfuls of baking powder, and then sifted flour and baking
powder together. After this was done, she added a little of it at a time to
the mixture of butter and eggs, beating away until all the flour had been
used up. Then she put into it a teaspoonful of vanilla essence and added
enough milk to make a thick batter. Little pans shaped like hearts and
rounds, and one large round pan were then well greased, and the beaten
up cake put into each pan until it was half full. Then the pans of cake
were set into the oven and in ten or fifteen minutes all the tiny "hearts
and rounds" were baked a light brown, while the large pan had to stay
baking ten or fifteen minutes more.

A very happy child was young Ruth when she took out her pans of
cake.
Her father, mother, brothers and the "company" who arrived the next
day thought it the "nicest cake ever made by so young a little girl."

MISCHIEVOUS BABY.
[Illustration]
Full of mischief? Well, yes, may be, Else he would not be a baby.
But--when he's asleep, dear me, What baby could more quiet be?

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