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Show jail lales & As told to: ELMO j I FRANK E. ...d SCOTT j I HAGAN g WATSON Cooking Under Difficulties T::i 'PY l'.l.rt: nf tin- Three I'euce r::m-h in M..m;insi re-nieiiriers re-nieiiriers w !mt :m iuino.vini time he had when lie caine' up from Texas with a trail herd nnrk in 1&J. When the c-eek died. the tmss found out that Teddy knew something ahout sliimiu;,' i;ruh teu'etlier find made him take charge of the chuck waon. In it lie found plenty of bacon, flour, beans, bakin.s powder, suu'ar, colTee and everything else needed to feed the hungry crew of punchers. punch-ers. But the only trouble was that they were out on a treeless plain where there wasn't a stick of wood visible anywhere. Then one of the punchers lit a cigarette and snapped the still-blazing match into n bunch of buffalo grass. It flamed up and right then Teddy had an idea, lie ran and got the coffee pot, filled it up, threw some bacon in a skillet and started start-ed toward the place where the tire in the buffalo grass was spreading. Holding the colfee pot and the skillet over the flame lie followed the line of blazing grass and In a short time the bacon began to sizzle siz-zle and the coffee began to steam a bit. After a while Teddy said to himself, "Well, I guess she's ready to serve now." But whei) he looked up he discovered that he had followed the flame uDtil he was 11 miles from camp. By the time he got back the bacon and the coffee cof-fee were cold. The boys grumbled about having to eat cold chuck, so Teddy quit as cook right there. Western Newspaper Union. |