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So after a fire had been built, and coffee made, bacon and flapjacks being the other items on the bill of fare, the men and boys were told off into watches. Bud and Slim, Nort and Snake, and Dick and Yellin' Kid were assigned to divide the night among them working as partners in the order named.
"I can make flapjacks," said Pee-wee; "I've got eight pounds of Indian meal." "How far would I have to hike to digest them?" Townsend asked. "You'd need a bigger island than this," said Brownie. "You couldn't digest a flapjack on anything smaller than South America." "Give me a piece of chocolate," said Townsend, "and a couple of prunes." "It looks nice up the river in the moonlight, doesn't it?"
Bell delicately inserted the cake-turner under the curled edges of the flapjacks and turned them over deftly, using a little too much force, perhaps, in the downward stroke when she flung them back on the griddle. 'Seems to me they come down with considerable of a thud, she said, reflectively. 'I hope they're not tough, for I should never hear the last of it.
That was a welcome sound to a set of ravenous boys, and they quickly assembled around the rude table upon which the black chef was placing heaps of flapjacks, flanked by steaming cups of fragrant coffee. Uncle Toby did not seem to relish being left alone in the camp again; but there was nothing else to be done.
At Christmas-tide he stakes his digestion on rebanadas, a Moorish invention nothing less than ambrosial flapjacks made by soaking huge slices of wheaten bread in new milk, frying them in olive oil and then spreading them lavishly with honey. The Portuguese can be industrious, but all work and no play is a scheme of life which would ill accord with his social, pleasure-loving temperament.
Count in the outfit for each one a tin cup, preferably with open handle for wearing over belt. In the one-day camp very few cooking utensils are needed; they may consist of two tin pails, one for drinking water, the other for boiling water, one coffee-pot for cocoa, one frying-pan for flapjacks or eggs, one large kitchen knife for general use, and one large spoon for stirring batter and cocoa.
"It don't take Moore no time to throw a gun on Cherokee where he's consoomin' flapjacks at the O. K. House, an' tell him the committee needs him at the New York Store. Cherokee don't buck none, but comes along, passive as a tabby cat. "'Whatever's the hock kyard to all this? he says to Jack Moore. 'Is it this Stingin' Lizard play a month ago?
The rain was still pouring when we pitched our tent that first night, but we had a good supper and were reasonably cheerful. There were flapjacks dripping with the syrup of melted sugar, and bacon, and hot bread, and coffee. "With this sort of work before us," said Hubbard, "we must keep well fed." "The river," said I, "certainly is the limit.
"This," remarked Johnston, "is the beginning of riches. Two days ago, he would have carefully swept up the fragments to make flapjacks."
His skill in turning flapjacks by a simple manipulation of the long-handled griddle means more to his true ego than the finest canvas. June offered to set the table, but Sammy said she could never do it alone, so together they brought out the blue china dishes and the pewter plates. Then they drew water at the stone-curbed well with the great sweep, carrying the leather-baled bucket between them.
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