Part 14 (1/2)
”The bread is all right, anyway!”
Such was the volley of ree soency work in the line of eating and fixing meals”
”Seeirls knows so room on the second floor were two chandeliers Under these were, of course, tables, and before the anxious ones had time to settle their fears there stood on these tables Cora, Bess and Belle, and on the other Ed, Jack and Walter Each of our friends had in his or her hand so that answered to the pan or pot brand of utensil, and in the pan or pot, which was held over the gas, was sos to eat, sizzling and crisping
It was very funny to see the young folks cooking over the handsolobes had been removed
”Well, did you ever!” exclai folks do beat all! I used to think ht, but whoever on earth would have cooked bacon and eggs over a la theuest, as she took the pan Cora handed down and gingerly slopped the stuff over on a wooden plate ”I guess it is a good thing to kno to drive an autoht smart! Whew! but that was hot!”
and she put the overheated fingers into her mouth
”Put another dish over it to keep it hot,” Cora ordered ”And can't so to do”
”See here!” called out Ed, ”this is no pancake party I a down to eat We have enough of tomatoes warmed to fill the wash bowl, and I love canned tomatoes if they are out of a washbowl We washed the bowl, and sterilized it, and it's as good as a soup tureen”
There stood the white wash basin al tomatoes As Ed said, there could be no objection to the crockery
Jack had charge of the water for tea This took a long ti to the fact that the kettle was a very much bent-up affair that had been rescued fro canned peas, while Belle insisted that all she could do was to turn over, with a fork, the things that cooked nicely on Cora's pan
”Done to a turn!” announced Jack, as he jumped doith his pots
”Now, if you folks need any o into active service”
His initiative was followed by the others, and presently the less tiuests had put food into pans and taken up their places on the tables to do their cooking, while it seemed that all at once every one ”fell to” and procured so haste!” rereat meal, that
CHAPTER XII
QUEER COBBLERS
”Isn't she disappointing?” remarked Hazel
”Very,” answered Cora
”To think that she should leave us for a patient!”
”I cannot understand it”