“And vegetables; peas and beets and carrots very tender and cut very fine. Tomato jelly makes a good salad, too.”
“You could make pretty little individual molds of that.”
“What are we going to have for salad after these birds?” inquired Roger.
“Let’s have alligator pear salad. It’s as easy as fiddle. You just have to pare the alligators and take out their cores—”
“With a butcher’s knife?” inquired Roger.
“—and cut them in halves lengthwise. Then you put the pieces on a pale yellow-green lettuce leaf, and pour French dressing over it, and there you are!”
“I like it all except the name,” objected Roger.
“Christen it something else, and be happy,” urged Helen.
“What for sweeties?” Roger demanded. “I’m going through this feast systematically.”
“Don’t go on to the sweeties until we’ve settled on the bread, then,” insisted Ethel Brown, “I say Parker House rolls.”