Then she wrote:
Menu
Billy's Potato Lunch
Purée of Potato
Potatoes-in-the-Shell
Cold Meat Mashed Potatoes
Sliced Bananas with Cream
Milk
"That 'Potato-in-the-Shell' sounds 'swell,'" said Coffee Pot, "but it seems to me you ought to have something to drink, like coffee, or something of that kind."
"Oh, that's true," Mary Frances replied, "but I don't know how to make coffee, and Mother said I must make everything in the order it came in my book——"
"Won't you look to see if my turn doesn't come soon?" interrupted Coffee Pot.
"Not to-day," Mary Frances shook her head. "To-day we have milk.
"Why, to-morrow!" as she looked in her book. "Isn't that fine! But—those potatoes must be done. I should think so! A minute more, and they'd have been burned!" she said as she drained off the water.
"Now, ready for the masher!"