The Luncheon Club asked Miss James if she would not go with them some pleasant Saturday for a picnic on the shores of a beautiful pond at the head of Pleasant Valley.

This sheet of water had been stocked with fish by the farmers of the valley, who sent for advice to the Bureau of Fisheries at Washington. The members of the Farmers' Club have permission to fish at certain times of the year. They were very glad to allow the Luncheon Club to go fishing on a holiday morning.

The other food for luncheon was arranged for, just as the club planned it on school days. The different members of the club carried different foods; and all together they had enough bread and butter, sandwiches, and cookies for every one present. The boys caught the fish while Miss James and the girls were building the fire and preparing to make the cocoa in a kettle hung over the fire. Two or three pans had been loaned for frying the fish, and you may be sure that the boys and girls had a merry time cleaning and cooking the fish, and eating the luncheon. They sang their club songs, told stories, and gathered wild flowers to carry home. There were very few dishes to wash because they used wooden plates for the fish. All the papers that were left were neatly buried, because the young people ate their luncheon on the spot where other people might go, and they remembered that nothing is so disagreeable as to see dirty papers and scraps of food lying about.

Fig. 31. - The Luncheon Club at the shore.

One of the girls said, "May we have a lesson at school on cooking fish, for there are so many ways that it can be done?" The next time that the cooking class met on their regular day they studied the fish question.

Here are a few recipes. We cannot always have fresh fish, and should learn to use fish salted and canned.

Fig. 32. - A dish of scalloped fish. See page 85. Notice how neatly the cloth is wrapped around the dish in which the fish is cooked.