They were baked _a la mode_ backwoods.

It is hardly proper for me to give a recipe in this place, that belongs more properly to the "Household Departments" of the newspapers.

But to satisfy curiosity, and to tell something about cooking, which Prof.Blot does not know, I may say that they were broken and dropped on a piece of brown paper laid on the top of the old box-stove.

By the time the egg was cooked hard the paper was burned to ashes, but the egg came off clean and nice from the stove, and made as palatable and indigestible an article for a late supper as one could wish.

It only wanted the addition of Mandluff's peculiar whisky to make it dissipation of the choicest kind.