"I want to know whether I'm going to marry a bachelor or a widower or not marry at all," cried Helen. "Let's try the 'three luggies' next." "First cabbages, then 'luggies'," said Della "What are 'luggies'?" "'Luggies' are saucers," explained Helen, while James brought a small table and Ethel Brown arranged three saucers upon it. "In one of them I put clear water, in another one, sandy water, and nothing at all in the third. Anybody ready to try? Come, Della." Della came forward briskly, but hesitated when she found that she must be blindfolded. "There isn't any trick about it?" she asked suspiciously. "I shouldn't like to have anything happen to that saucer of sandy water." "It won't touch anything but your finger tips, and perhaps not those," Helen reassured her. "What you are to do is to dip the fingers of your left hand into one of these saucers. If it proves to be the one with the clear water you'll marry a bachelor; if it's the sandy one he'll be a widower, and if it's the empty one you'll be a spinster to your dying day." "You have three tries," cried Ethel Blue, "and the saucers are changed after each trial, so you have to touch the same one twice to be sure you really know your fate. Are you ready?" "I'm ready," and Della bravely though cautiously dipped the finger tips of her left hand into the bowl of sandy water. A cheer greeted this result. "A widower, a widower," they all cried. Helen changed the position of the saucers and Della made another trial. This time the Fates booked her as a spinster. "That's the least trouble of anything," decided roly poly Della who took life carelessly. A third attempt proved that a widower was to be her future helpmate, for her fingers went into the sandy saucer for a second time. "I only hope he won't be an oldy old widower," said Della thoughtfully. "I couldn't bear to think of marrying any one as old as Edward." "I'll thank you to take notice that I haven't got a foot in the grave just yet, young woman," retorted her brother. While some of the others tried their fate by the saucer method, the rest endeavored to learn their future occupations by means of pouring melted lead through the handle of a key. Roger brought in a tiny kettle of lead from the kitchen where Mary had heated it for them and set it down on a small table on a tea pot stand, so that the heat should not injure the wood. Taking a large key in his left hand he dipped a spoon into the lead with his right and poured the contents slowly through the ring at the end of the handle of the key into a bowl of cold water. The sudden chill stiffened the lead into curious shapes and from them those who were clever at translating were to discover what the future held for them in the way of occupation. "Mine looks more like a spinning wheel than anything else," said Roger who had done it first so that the rest might see how it was accomplished.