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Favourite subjects were her kettle and her methylated spirits, whether the hotel would allow her to take up milk and sugar from breakfast, whether the chambermaid abstracted the biscuits she brought from dessert overnight.
Tired, hungry, perhaps cold and wet, the smoke everywhere, the coffee pot melted down, the can of soup upset in the fire, the fiendish conduct of frying pan and kettle, the final surrender of the exhausted victim, sliding off to sleep with a piece of hardtack in one hand and a slice of canned beef in the other, only to dream of mother's hot biscuits, juicy steaks, etc., etc."
"Yes, I'm getting to be something of a cook myself," admitted the lad. "But I can't quite equal your biscuits yet, and there's no use saying I can. However, you baked a pretty good batch this afternoon, and dad sure will be pleased when he sees 'em. I wish he'd come while they're hot though," and once more Jack Bailey arose and went out to peer up the trail.
When the three returned to the kitchen to take the biscuits and other breakfast food out, Sary stood with head thrown back and body rocking back and forth as she laughed immoderately. "Do tell, Mis' Brewster! You-all bean't goin' t' eat out thar, now be yuh?" "Why, of course!" retorted Polly. "Why shouldn't we?" asked Mrs. Brewster.
But an hour's work made it habitable again, and we gleefully piled the stove with the last of our wood and used the last spoonfuls of a can of baking-powder to make a batch of biscuits, the first bread we had eaten in two weeks.
Johnnie Dunn," suggested his sister. But Jimmie was in no mood for a joke. Each new enlistment from the community was to him a personal injury. "More unlikely than that!" he growled, throwing his heavy bag of books in the corner, and his wet mittens behind the stove, "it's Gavin Grant, that's who it is." Christina stopped in the operation of taking a pan of hot biscuits from the oven.
Turner is the only woman that I can stand," said Cherry, "and she was always cooking, in an awful cooking shed, masses and masses of macaroni and stewed plums and biscuits and all of them laughing and saying, 'Girlie, I guess you've got a hollow leg! Dearie, I couldn't eat any more without busting! And sitting round that plank table " Martin shouted with laughter at her, but he sympathized.
His voice, being a really splendid one, attracted all the men who chanced to be within range of it: among others, Miles, who was passing at the moment with a bag of biscuits in one hand and a meat-can in the other. He leaned up against one of those funnels which send fresh air down to the stokers of steam-ships.
Just a bone occasionally and any scraps there are. There's tons of his biscuits down there ... only two meals a day and no snacks between, and as much exercise as is convenient though, mind you, they're easy dogs in that way they don't need you to be racing about all day like some."
"Only take my advice," she went on, standing with the cover poised in the air and speaking earnestly. "Don't try it on your family first they never appreciate you. Why, the first time I made biscuits, do you know what dad said?" "No, but I can imagine," said Grace, who had also been regarding the operation, "judging from what dad and Will would have remarked."
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