After further cooking, and just at the proper moment, the cooling toffee must be pulled for a long time.

The mother's strong hands plied unceasingly for five minutes, folding and drawing out the sugary skein; the movement became slower and slower, until, stretched for the last time to the thickness of a finger, it was cut into lengths with scissors-not too easily, for it was already hard.

The la tire was made.
The children were busy with their first portions, when a knocking was heard on the door.

"Eutrope Gagnon," at once declared Chapdelaine.

"I was just saying to myself that it would be an odd thing if he did not come and spend the evening with us." Eutrope Gagnon it was in truth.