Little Bo-Peep asks if any one can tell her the author of the following lines, and in what poem they occur:—
"There is a reaper, whose name is Death,
And, with his sickle keen.
He reaps the bearded grain at a breath,
And the flowers that grow between."
Work.
Georgina Dexter asks how to make a pair of bedroom slippers.
Florence Waters would be glad if any one could tell her how to clean crewel-work.
Cookery.
Violet writes in answer to A Maid of Athens that a very good recipe for oat-cakes is as follows:—Put two or three handfuls of coarse Scottish oatmeal into a basin with a pinch of carbonate of soda, mix well together, add one dessert-spoonful of hot dripping, mixing quickly with the hand; pour in as much cold water as will allow it to be lifted out of the basin in a very soft lump. Put this with a handful of meal upon a pastry-board, scattering meal upon it. Roll it out quickly with a rolling-pin; when as thick as a half-crown brush off all meal with some feathers or a pastry brush. Put another board upon the cake, reverse it, and brush it the other side. Slip it upon a hot girdle, cut it with a knife across and across so as to form triangular pieces. When they begin to curl up at the edges turn them on the girdle, keep them there till dry enough to lift, then remove them to a toaster in front of the fire, where they should become a light brown. Be careful to keep the girdle brushed free of loose oatmeal, scraping it occasionally with a knife. The more rapidly the cakes are made the better.
General.
Herbert Masters would be very glad if any of the readers of Little Folks would tell him the cost of a small carpenter's bench.
An Amateur Mechanic inquires which is the best wood for fretwork purposes; and where fret-saws may be obtained.