Show real lovers of idleness idleness is the most natural state Is the dictum of jefferson de angehr the comedian at present staring in pantana your ordinary everyday man will tolerate nearly evereth ng in preference to hard work want me to give you an instance 7 three years ago I 1 was one of a little party that went into the adiron dacks on a hi inting and fishing eppedi tion there were only tour of us so we did not consider it worth while to employ a cook agreeing that each in turn should have charge of the culin ary department when it came to al blotting terms of service someone sug that the first chef should do the work until a campli nt was made about his cooking when the maker of the complaint hould s him the next kicker was to take the place of the second and so on A oung 1 fellow named jones was assigned to create the part and began hl duties the day that camp was pitched jones was a nice houi chap and a willing worker at first but as time passed and no aspirant appeared to relieve him he grew weary of the task his friends were having the time of the r lives while he was unable to ge far away from pots and pans and smoky wood fires again and again he made deliberate attempts at spoil ing the dinner hoping that someone would complain bit the boys were quite satisfied to pay the penalty ol 01 batine bad food in return for exema tion from preparing it at last determined to be tree jones mixed biscuits one afternoon and when they were ready to bake louied a pound of salt into the dough the fellows got bad to camp in due season and as they squatted around the alre one of them took a biscuit and bit a large piece out of it the salt in it nearly choked him he gagged and turned red in the face As soon as he had regained his breath he exclaimed gee whiz that biscuit is salty then remembering that this statement identified as i complaint would make him the cool of the par ty he added hastily but it s good it s good it s good he ate every scrap of the food and we other two martyrs followed suit |