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Updated: June 24, 2025
"When you get through invoicin' yer trooso, Winthrup, it wouldn't delay us none if you'd grasp that there hand-ax an' carve out a little fire-fodder." He glanced up at Alice. "An' if cookin' of any kind has be'n inclooded in your repretwa of accomplishments, you might sizzle up a hunk of that sow-belly, an' keep yer eye on this here pot.
"Why so?" queried Mr. Adams, examining his bread. "'Cause you're bread eaters, 'stead o' bein' flap-jackers. By that I take it you've not been up into the flapjack country yon," and he jerked his head in the direction of the foothills and mountains. "When a man makes his squar' meals out o' flapjacks an' sow-belly, then he can call himself a miner."
Our meals were passed in to us through an open space near the level of the floor, at the upper end of the cage, where a bar had been removed for that purpose. We'd line up and the tin plates would be handed in, one after the other ... two meals a day. For breakfast a corn pone of coarse, white corn meal, and a bit of fried sow-belly. For dinner, all the water we could drink.
"He was peeking through his glasses at the camp, and I was helping pepper, the General's sow-belly just as usual when he turns to me quick and says, 'Almighty! How all these Englishmen are liars! You cannot trust one, he says. 'Captain Mankeltow tells our Johanna he comes not back till Tuesday, and to-day is Friday, and there he is! Almighty! The English are all Chamberlains!
"Salinas is on the 'hog, the 'bulls' is 'horstile." "I got 'pinched' at El Paso, along with Moke Kid." "Talkin' of 'poke-outs, wait till you hit the French country out of Montreal not a word of English you say, 'Mongee, Madame, mongee, no spika da French, an' rub your stomach an' look hungry, an' she gives you a slice of sow-belly an' a chunk of dry 'punk."
Now and then, to help out the sow-belly, we get quarter rations of fresh beef from the carcass of a Tennessee steer that the quartermaster manages to lay hands on somehow. But it's awful poor beef, lean, slimy, skinny and stringy.
And my supper had consisted of hardtack and raw sow-belly, with river water for a beverage, of the vintage, say, of 1541. And to aggravate the situation generally, I was lying on a blanket which a military necessity had compelled me to steal. But I reflected that we couldn't all be officers, there had to be somebody to do the actual trigger-pulling.
Then, at the sound of a familiar voice, all suspicion died out. "All fixed right, Charley?" "Sho', boss. Him fix plenty good." "Got sow-belly an' hardtack? Maybe you'll need him. Gun? Plenty cartridge?" "Him plenty all thing." "Good. Say, you need to get around before daylight. Good luck." The Indian grunted his reply while he stooped again to release the rawhide painter.
There were copper pails and calico dresses, pain-killer bottles and Hudson's Bay blankets, sow-belly and chocolate drops, castor oil and gun worms, frying-pans and ladies' wire bustles, guns and corsets, axes and ribbons, shirts and hunting-knives, perfumes and bear traps.
He was living on "sow-belly" and "hardtack," and extras in the way of "canned truck," and none of the good things which his sister had ever made for him had tasted half so sweet as the rough cooking of this wholesome food by Peter. Something like happiness was his just now; but he regretted that it could only last until his sister returned to Barnriff.
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