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Only the cook and his helper, "the cookee," were at the camp. The cook came out and advanced to meet the new arrivals, having been attracted from his kettles and pans by the view-halloo they sent down from the hilltop. "Colonel left word to lock him in the wangan," reported the cook, rolling his bare arms more tightly in his dingy apron. "Where is the colonel?" asked Connick.
"Here, now, take this sandwich, an' I'll give ye each a cracker," said the Cookee, handing a thick double slice of bread and jam to the children. Then taking out a handful of crackers, he gave them to the eager hands that were outstretched. "Whist, now! run off to bed wid ye," laughed he, watching the twins skip across the clearing toward their own bunk.
This severity is demanded by the necessity which is felt for upholding the social edifice in its integrity; and is also altogether in keeping with the slight regard in which the lives of the lower orders are universally held, and the love of bloodshed by which this ferocious people is distinguished. But when one "cookee," or common man, pilfers from another, it is quite another matter.
He went through the motions of spreading a table and eating. The others watched interestedly. "Will you?" he asked. She gravely nodded her head. A cheer went up from the circle. "Hey, cookee!" cried Big Jack. "Toss up a bag of biscuits and put your coffee-pot on. You, Joe, chase out to the stable and fetch a box for her to sit on."
Air ye no feart ye'se aiblins see yon day gin ye 'se thole waur fare nir a wamefu' o' gude brose? Heh!" "Eatee lice in China," replied the gardener, with national pride. "Plenty lice good cookee welly ni'." "By gummies! Hi seed the time Hi'd 'a' stopped yer jorrin', Dave!" said a quavering voice, dominating some argument at the other end of the table.
The cookee continued his occupations. "I suppose the men got out to the marsh on time," suggested Dyer, still easily. The cook laid aside his paper and looked the scaler in the eye. "You're the foreman; I'm the cook," said he. "You ought to know." The cookee had paused, the paste brush in his hand. Dyer was no weakling. The problem presenting, he rose to the emergency.
Then he would breakfast leisurely. Thus he incurred the enmity of the cook and cookee. Those individuals have to prepare food three times a day for a half hundred heavy eaters; besides which, on sleigh-haul, they are supposed to serve a breakfast at three o'clock for the loaders and a variety of lunches up to midnight for the sprinkler men.
"By thunder, I believe you're right, skipper!" said Ellinwood solemnly. "The dirty dog! Cookee, run that tub up to the truck again. We'll have to call the men in on this." "Oh, he was foxy, that one!" said Code bitterly. "Going out in the fog that way so all hands would think he was lost! I never remembered until this minute that the motor-dory could be run.
It was a long and dreary day for him. From the window he saw Colonel Ward go scurrying away on a jumper, evidently bound for the choppings. The cook and cookee surveyed his prison at a distance. They seemed to have no desire to come into close contact with a man of whom they had heard such sinister reports.
I was given to understand, that the name of the king was Oree, and he proposed, as a mark of amity, that we should exchange names. To this I readily consented; and he was Cookee, for so he pronounced my name, and I was Oree, for the rest of the time we were together.
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