"
Yard-building lacking in interest, lubras and piccaninnies provided
entertainment, until Dan failing to see that "niggers could teach her
anything," decided on a course of camp cookery.
Roast scrub turkey was the first lesson cooked in the most correct style:
a forked stick, with the fork uppermost, was driven into the ground near
the glowing heap of wood ashes; then a long sapling was leant through the
fork, with one end well over the coals; a doubled string, with the turkey
hanging from it, looped over this end; the turkey turned round and round
until the string was twisted to its utmost, and finally string and turkey
were left to themselves, to wind and unwind slowly, an occasional
winding-up being all that was necessary.
The turkey was served at supper, and with it an enormous boiled
cabbage--one of Cheon's successes. Dan was in clover, boiled cabbage
being considered nectar fit for the gods, and after supper he put the
remnants of the feast away for his breakfast. "Cold cabbage goes all
right," he said, as he stowed it carefully away--"particularly for
breakfast.
Pages:
197
198
199
200
201
202
203
204
205
206
207
208
209
210
211
212
213
214
215
216
217
218
219
220
221