"You remember our chat about starch, Norah?" asked Fred. "Would you like to see me make some starch now?""Ah," said Norah, "I know you are a very clever brother, but I don"t think you can make starch.""Then watch me, and see," said Fred. "Look, this is some flour. I will tie it up in this piece of muslin. All I have to do is to work it up between my fingers and thumb in this basin of water. See, the water is getting white and milky-looking, because I am washing the starch out into it. This flour-the flour that makes our bread-contains starch.""Teacher made some starch from a potato," saidWillie. "He says the potato contains more starchthan the flour."
