Show THEIR LUCKY DAY how members of camping party found a cook finding of e manna in the wilderness or getting water from rock would not have been wonderful after that experience it might seem reasonable to believe that in the wilderness the troubles and iland trials can caused by cooks or the want of cooks could coald be comfortably left behind but according to mrs mary roberts Rine Rl bart such roca Is 13 not the case so essential a place in the routine ot of a largo large camping party does a cook occupy that trouble with that important personage Is 13 a dire calamity in tenting tonight mrs rinehart lU gives her views on the subject and describes the nerve racking experience ot of trying to keep hold of an unstable cook by the end ot of the second day aay she says we were well away from even that remote part ot of civilization from which we had started and a terrible fact act was dawning on us the cook did not me like us I 1 now the center of a camping trip Is the cook he has the hardest job that I 1 know of he cooks with inadequate equipment on a tiny stove in the open where the air blows the smoke into his face and cinders into his food worse than that be must cook not only for the party but tor for a hungry crowd of guides and packers that etts la in a circle and watches him and urges him and gets under his feet feel he Is the first up in the morning and the last in bed lie ho has to dry his bis dishes on anything that comes handy and then pack all hla his grub grab on oil an unreliable horse and start oft for the next eating ground so knowing all this and also that we were about a n thousand miles from the nearest employment and several days hard riding from a settlement tl we went to bill with tribute we praised his specialties we gave him a college lad turned guide for the summer to assist him we gathered up our own dishes but gloom hung over him like a cloud A few days later the climax came one afternoon we found a rangers cabin and rode into its inclosure Indo sure for luncheon breakfast had been early and we were very hungry wo we had gone long miles through the thick and silent forest and now we wanted food we sat la in a circle aa on the ground and talked about food at last the chuck wagon drove in we stood up and gave a hungry cheer and then bill was gone some miles back he had halted the wagon got outs out taken his bed on ids his back and started toward civilization on foot we stared blankly at the teamster well we said what did he say all he said to me was so long langl I 1 said gold the teamster and that was all there was to it there we were in the wilderness far tar far from a cook in savage silence we lunched out of tins when we spoke it was to impose horrible punishments on the defaulting cook in silence we finished our luncheon in silence mounted our horses in black and hopeless silence we rode on north moving every moment farther and farther from cooks and 2nd nd hotels and tables chote at last in a clearing we saw raw a man sitting quite idly beside the trail we rode up to him and said do you know of any place where we can find a cook and this man who had dropped from heaven replied 1 I am a cook so we put him bim on our extra saddle horse and took him with us he cooked for us with might and main dawn and night until the trip was over |