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Thicgi to Know and Do 193 a bucket of water. Close up the hole, cover all tight and leave for half an hour to an hour. Open cautiously, careifully keeping the clay from the fish. Turn the plank and remove the binding. The fi^ will be found beautifully cooked. Potatoes take three times as long to do in this way. To Broil. To broil fish, game, or bacon is easy if one make a hot fire, then expose a level bed of coals, fan it once with a hat or board to remove the ashes from the top of the coals, then drop the meat to be cooked right on the coals. It will broil in a minute or two. Turn it over with a stick and the operation will be quickly completed. Toasting is easily done if we cut a forked stick of strong green wood and hold the bread over the fire. Roasting. A good meat roaster is made by hanging the meat in a green wood hook made with a broad wooden fan set in a split near the top and above that a heavy cord to hang it with. Thus, the wind, striking the fan, turns the meat and twists the cord until it is tight ; then it unwinds, but, owing to the weight of the meat, goes past the dead point and winds itself up the other way, and so on. This is an especially satisfactory roaster when there is wind. Bread. The test of all is the making of good bread without utensils. Some make a hole in the ground for a breadpan and line it with a comer of a mackintosh. But most old timers use