. . . " as to heat the bason; the flame touched the bottom of the bason, and he held it until such time as a blue flame and smoke came up through the handkerchief; then he took the handkerchief off, and took the basin down, and stirred it up then with a bit of stick; then he put in the whole of that like flower out of the paper, and he put in some of the hard lump, which he scraped very small with a knif" .