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Updated: July 3, 2025
If the proprietor of the boat has a family, he puts its members on board, not forgetting the pet dogs and cats, with a small stock of salt pork, bacon, flour, potatoes, molasses, salt, and coffee. An old cooking-stove is set up in the shanty, and its sheet-iron pipe, projecting through the roof, makes a chimney a superfluity.
A large roll of canvas, to be used as a protection against rain, was stowed in one end of the odd craft, while at the other end was a large and very rusty cooking-stove, with a joint of pipe rising above it.
If the captain should happen to blunder into some of the stores in Riverport where I had made some extensive purchases, as I regarded them, he might wonder what I had done with a second-hand cooking-stove, about twenty pounds of nails, and other articles upon which boys do not usually set a high value; but the amount of money employed in the transaction would be of greater interest to him.
The sordid and depressing surroundings the dingy and broken-backed chairs, the cracked and battered cooking-stove, the ancient chest of drawers without a knob left upon it, the odor of German tenement cookery and of feather-beds vanished now.
Some accident had befallen the cooking-stove, which the brothers had never more than half approved, it being one of the early patterns, and a poor exchange for the ancient methods of cookery in the wide fireplace. "The women" had had a natural desire to be equal with their neighbors, and knew better than their husbands did the difference this useful invention had made in their every-day work.
We have heard of the daughters of the Husgafvel family, who grew old yawning over the spinning-wheel and the weaving-stool; but, better so to grow old, yes, better a thousand times to grow grey over the spinning-wheel and the ashes of the cooking-stove, than with artificial flowers oh, how artificial! in the hair, on the benches of the ball-room, or the seat of the supper-room, smiling over the world, which smiles over us no longer.
The broken crockery, and leaky black tea-pot, and ancient cooking-stove the pipe of the latter running up through the wagon-top are once more aboard, wife and children packed in, and the uneasy frontiersman is pushing out again towards solitude. Tom had been reviewing this bit of family history more in detail, and much more vividly than we have now done.
Then it presented itself to their contemplation in full force, and apparently without any loophole to escape from it. What was to be done for a cooking-stove? Snowball sighed as he thought of his caboose, with all its paraphernalia of pots and pans, especially his great copper, in which he had been accustomed to boil mountains of meat and oceans of pea-soup.
His hair as well as the position of his shoulders and his whole expression looked combative. Barbara sat down by the cooking-stove; she drew a heavy breath, and sighed out of an oppressed breast. It would come to an execution as sure as she lived and it was for thirty-eight dollars!
A fourth tent for the Indians, and a cooking-stove with camp-chests and equipage, completed our outfit, which all belonged to Kingfisher, and represented the results of many years' experience in camping out. The cooking-stove is made of sheet iron and packs in a box, and is one of the most valuable utensils in the woods.
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