Your fire is ready, so you must hurry and get the
Great Iron Pot
to hang over the flames. Break an egg in halves as indicated by dotted lines in [Fig. 219]; even off the edge of the larger half shell with a pair of scissors, paste a strip of tissue-paper over the edge and glue on a stiff paper handle ([Fig. 220]). Cut three pieces of heavy, stiff paper like [Fig. 221], bend at dotted line and pinch the two lower corners on part T together to form the pot legs ([Fig. 222]). Turn the egg-shell upside down and fasten the legs on by gluing the flap U ([Fig. 221]) on the bottom of the shell; the legs should enable the pot to stand upright. Turn the egg-shell into iron by painting the handle and outside of the pot jet black ([Fig. 223]). Swing the crane forward, hang on the pot, pretend you have something to cook in it, then move the crane back over the fire.
Fig. [220].—A strip of paper for the handle.
| Fig. [221].—Cut the pot leg like this. | Fig. [222].—Bend the pot leg like this. | Fig. [223].—Paint the pot black. |
Remember all the time you are playing, that this is the way your colonial ancestors cooked.
In days of long ago, they had many other