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Updated: June 29, 2025
This, as regards the exceptional dainties, is done at the barrack-room fire, the cook-house being in use only for the now despised ration meat and for the still simmering puddings. The handy man cunningly improvises a roasting-jack, and erects a screen consisting of bed-quilts spread on a frame of upright forms, for the purpose of retaining and throwing back the heat.
Carara followed at his heels. "It serves him right!" cried Miss Blake, rising. "I hope Mr. Carara " A din of falling pots and pans issued from the cook-house, mingled with shrill cries and soft Spanish imprecations; then, with one long-drawn wail, the pandemonium ceased as suddenly as it had commenced, and Carara issued forth, black with anger.
As soon as the cars were tucked up and silent again we raced back to the cook-house, where we threw ourselves into deck chairs, played the gramophone, made coffee to keep us awake, or read frightening books I remember I read "Bella Donna" on one of these occasions and wouldn't have gone across the camp alone if you'd paid me. A grand midnight supper also took up a certain amount of time.
The company also had a saw-mill. Buildings of huge, squared timbers flanked three sides of the inner stockades the dining-hall, the cook-house, the bunk-house, the store, the trader's house. There were two bastions, and from each cannon pointed. Close to the wicket at the main entrance stood the postoffice. Only a fringe of settlement went beyond the company's farm.
We will make thee a consecrated cook-house before we get through we will! We will cook a dish in thee that will warm the hearts of a goodly company oh blessed cook-house! And outside a great white moon streaming through the forest trees! The "cook-house" is about ten feet square. It is about one-third stove, now covered with a newspaper and serving as a table.
The sun was hot overhead, and the squeaking low of a cow-buffalo, calling to its calf, came to his ears. The fowls clucked and scratched about the ground beneath the flooring, and the women-folk in the cook-house chattered happily. All spoke of peace. The war was over, and Che’ Jahya sat dreaming of the good things which would be his in the days that were coming.
It would be a difficult matter for a stranger to tell the difference between the two natives. "What d'ye mean, you black scoundrel, by putting a rat into my traps?" demanded Laxdale. "No did put, sah; him lib for come one time," expostulated Laxdale's servant. "Me play, 'Come to cook-house door, den him catchee." Producing a small native flute Mutton Chop began to play a soft air.
A few walked lazily about the stables, and two white-aproned cooks passed from cook-house to cook-house on the night preparations for the morning meal. Outwardly everything was above suspicion. Tressa thought so, as she stood beside her father in the doorway and looked out over the scene, while behind them Conrad read aloud the newest book to reach them. But her father was not at ease.
Medical panniers, operating marquee, tents and tent-poles, cook-house dixies, picks and shovels, bully and biscuit boxes and a hundred-and-one articles necessary to the work of the Medical Corps in the field: all this had to be man-handled through the sand up to our camp about a mile away.
Larry's got three days' bread and water, seven days' penal-class diet, and 'blued' fourteen days' remission; and Tim's got three days." Hospital. "Well, Larry partly deserves it. He was a fool to let the 'screw' see he had the 'snout; but what was Tim's offence?" "Speaking to a fellow in the ranks, and merely saying 'It was a fine morning; he'll get turned out of the cook-house, too.
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