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"No, it's not that either," said the widow. "Ah, then, it can't be because I'm poor," persisted O'Rook, "for with this good business you don't want money, an' I'm great at cookin', besides havin' the willin' hands that can turn to a'most anything. If ye'd seen me diggin' for goold, bad luck to it, ye'd belaive what I tell ye.
Some says she's cracked, but she's the best housekeeper round here, and if she hears of anybody that's sick or in trouble, she allers sends'em things. She ain't never been up here, but Miss Hathaway, she goes down there sometimes, and she'n Miss Ainslie swaps cookin' quite regler.
I wouldn't have spoken if I had known, but she needn't have let on they was hers an' make everything unpleasant. 'I guess them beans taste just as well as other folks', says she, and she wouldn't never speak to me afterward." "Do' know's I blame her," ventured Mr. Briley. "Women folks is dreadful pudjicky about their cookin'. I've always heard you was one o' the best o' cooks, Mis' Tobin.
At any rate, I've engaged to attend to the cookin' and to things in general in this camp durin' the rest of the time we stay here. "'And so Mr. Clyde is tired of trespassin', is he? says I. 'Yes, he is, says he; 'he's a high-minded young fellow, and doesn't fancy that sort of thing. Mr.
"Young Rube's gettin' quite a professional hand at cookin'," said Kiddie, measuring out pinches of tea. "You'll hear of him one o' these days takin' on the job of chef in some high-class New York hotel. He's got twenty-one diff'rent ways of cookin' eggs, an' as many of potatoes. You didn't happen ter bring along any eggs or potatoes, did you, Isa?
Who cooks fur you-oo-a? Ef you'll cook for my folks, Den I'll cook fur y' all-l-lll? "Well, hit wuz 'long er dat very chune wat he los' his eyes, an' can't see no mo' in de daytime; an' ev'n I wuz him, I'd let folks' cookin' erlone." "Can't you tell us about it, Daddy?" asked Dumps.
The others had finished supper and were gathered around the campfire, with North Park Ned the center of attraction. "I was camped over on Troublesome crick, an' havin' a busy time with cookin', wranglin' the hosses and doin' all the camp work. The fellers, they was all men, were too plumb loco to help, everything they touched spelt trouble.
"Boys," said he, "take that down and ship Mary. I'm mighty glad," he added reflectively, "that my ole woman does the cookin." "Mary skedaddled after dinner," said Ajax, frowning, "but I'm going into town to-morrow to bring him back." However, Mary brought himself back that same night.
He does the cookin' an' washin' the same as he always did, an' lets her do anythin' else she pleases, an' they say she's always very obligin' about doin' it. "So then Elijah crossed his legs the other way, an' asked if there was n't anythin' bigger as could be looked into, but every one knows Hiram is the biggest man anywhere around here, so that was no use.
While Ben Brace and Snowball stood pondering upon this, and mutually murmuring their regrets, a thought suddenly came into the mind of the sailor which was calculated to give comfort to all. "As for the provisions in our locker," said he, "we can easily 'plenish them, such as they be. Look there, nigger. There be enough raw meat to keep ye a' cookin' till your wool grows white."
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