And she was pleased as
anything, me lad, and now it's up to us to rig up some sort of a
dacint sate, and tag a woman along half the time. You thick-tongued
descindint of a bagpipe baboon, what did you sind me in there for?"
"Maybe a little of it will tire her," groaned Dannie.
"It will if she undertakes to follow me," Jimmy said. "I know
where horse-weeds grow giraffe high."
Then they went back to work, and presently many savory odors began
to steal from the cabin. Whereat Jimmy looked at Dannie, and winked
an `I-told-you-so' wink. A garden grows fast under the hands of two
strong men really working, and by the time the first slice of
sugar-cured ham from the smoke house for that season struck the
sizzling skillet, and Mary very meekly called from the back door to
know if one of them wanted to dig a little horse radish, the garden
was almost ready for planting. Then they went into the cabin and ate fragrant,
thick slices of juicy fried ham, seasoned with horse radish;
fried eggs, freckled with the ham fat in which they were cooked;
fluffy mashed potatoes, with a little well of melted butter in the
center of the mound overflowing the sides; raisin pie, soda biscuit,
and their own maple syrup.
"Ohumahoh!" said Jimmy. "I don't know as I hanker for city life so
much as I sometimes think I do. What do you suppose the adulterated
stuff we read about in papers tastes like?"
"I've often wondered," answered Dannie. "Look at some of the hogs
and cattle that we see shipped from here to city markets.
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