Show AS HIS MISTRESS HAD DONE Chinese Cook Like All His Race Capable Only of Imitating the Acts of Other Chinese need to bo taught to be more selfreliant said tho woman who employs a Chinese cook The other day I ordered my cook to make a pudding for dinner stopping a minute min-ute to see it ho followed my instructions instruc-tions for I had taught him to make this particular pudding Ho had Been me smell the eggs before putting them Into a bowl and he began by putting tho first egg to his nose He seemed on the right road BO I left tho kitchen for a minute Returning I discovered that ho bad used five eggs Instead of three as I had taught him Taking him to task for not following my instructions in-structions he answered Yes three here pointing to the bowl two here Indicating where he had thrown the others Same as you It dawned on me that when I had taught him to mako the pudding I had found tho second and third eggs that I had broken to be bad and had thrown both away He had simply done what he had seen mo do after smelling the second and third egg ho I had thrown them away |