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These were Peter Logan, the foreman, whose position required him to have a care for the safety of the men as well as for the progress of the work, and our friend Bremner, who had just descended from the cooking-room, where he had been superintending the preparation of supper. "It will be a stiff breeze, I fear, to-night," said Logan.
It was a sort of cooking-room, with an immense fire-place flanked by a couple of cauldrons, and was called Jack Ketch's Kitchen, because the quarters of persons executed for treason were there boiled by the hangman in oil, pitch, and tar, before they were affixed on the city gates, or on London Bridge.
For many a long year, longer than mine horrid host would care to recollect, this now unoccupied space had served admirably as the common cooking-room the ruined fireplace was still there; later, it had been the stable the ruined horse trough was still there.
Two miles off Land's End, on a mass of rocks which rise some seventy feet above the surface at low water, stands the Longships Lighthouse, the summit of which is fifty-six feet above the rock. The tower is divided into three stories. In the lower is kept provisions, with water and coal; the second is a cooking-room and oil-store: while the third is a sleeping-room.
These were Peter Logan, the foreman, whose position required him to have a care for the safety of the men as well as for the progress of the work, and our friend Bremner, who had just descended from the cooking-room, where he had been superintending the preparation of supper. "It will be a stiff breeze, I fear, to-night," said Logan.
I should not like to assert because I am telling the truth here that our boat was bewilderingly roomy. As a matter of fact, its length was some forty feet, its width seven feet, its depth much less, and it drew eight inches of water. Yet in it we had our bed-rooms, our dressing-rooms, our dining-rooms, our library, our occasional medicine-room, our cooking-room and all else.
They would now and then steal into the cooking-room belonging to the kennel, lift the lid from the boiler, and, if any portion of the joint or piece of meat projected above the water, suddenly seize it, and before there was time for them to feel much of its heat, contrive to whirl it on the floor, and eat it at their leisure as it got cold.
The clock struck five as the school-girls entered the kitchen, a large room which in winter did duty as dining-room as well as cooking-room. "Run in the sitting-room, girls, and get warm," said the mother. "Supper is almost ready." "Oh, we're not cold; are we, Susy? I got another head mark, mother," said Rachel. The mother smiled. "I hope you or Tom will get the prize. Where is he?"
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