The cook who has a rocking-chair, a cook-book, and a housekeeping magazine in her kitchen will do more work, and better work, other things being equal, than the cook who has none.

The houses were mostly mere board shanties, tightened by pasting newspapers over the cracks inside, where the women of the family had time for such work; and the heating apparatus was generally a wood-burning cook-stove, with possibly an additional coal heater in the front room which could be fired on Sundays, or when the family was at home to tend it.

If you want a meal you've got to call the cook-house 'The galley,' or starve.

On the morning of the 20th, daylight had scarcely dawned when twenty thousand men, the greater part of whom were armed with some weapon or othermuskets, pikes, hatchets, crowbars, and even spits from the cook-shops forming part of their equipmentassembled on the place where the Bastile had stood.

He, therefore, not only procured a complete service of silver, for his own table, and furnished the cook-room with many vessels of the same metal, but engaged several musicians to accompany him; rightly judging, that nothing would more excite the admiration of any savage and uncivilized people.

Nedou's Hotel offered so few attractions and so many drawbacks that we were prepared to do anything rather than return to it, and, as a matter of economy, we scored heavily, as, on working it out, we found that the boat, including the cook-boat, would cost 60 rupees per month.

"What on earth have you been doing, child?" To which Moll replies with a curtsey: "I am learning to be a cook-wench, Señor, at my father's desire.

And the man hurried toward the dining tent, next to the cook wagons.

"That," said his wife, pointing at the cook-general.

"Yeah," grinned Racey, "you hear a noise in the cook-shack, huh?

His natural spirits gave him rapture with his cook-maid, and cheerfulness when he was fluxing in a garret.

There was also a cook tent near the house where three meals a day were prepared for everybody, including the carpenters, masons, concrete men and well diggers who were working on the new buildings.

" King went for more water, this time filling his one cook-pot.

Two brigades of infantry were under canvas in Mud Gully, their cook fires winking like red eyes.

And the second queen cried out, "Why should I be only a cook-woman?"

And I can't run a logging crew from the cook shanty very well.

" "I know that," said the witness viciously; "and I say that you've no business to make any such insinuations to a respectable young lady when there's a cook-housekeeper and a kitchenmaid living in the house, and him old enough to be my father" Here his lordship flattened his eyelids with startling effect, and Mr. Loram interrupted: "I make no insinuations.

On hearing this, the vizier ordered Bedredeen to be seized, "for making cheese-cakes without pepper," and the joke was carried on till the party arrived at Cairo, when the pastry-cook prince was reunited to his wife, the Queen of Beauty.

If I had been of an argumentative turn, I would have asked Charlie to explain how giving the cook carte blanche in the matter of quantity should have had such a disastrous effect in the matter of quality.

It is on record that the Lady Digby smiled for the first time since her lord had died, and when the grinning cook bore in the platter, she beat upon the table with her spoon.

The poorest woodchopper makes the most sound; A poor cook clatters the most pans around; The rattling spoke carries least of the load; And jingling pennies pay little that's owed; A rooster crows but lays no eggs; A braggart blows but drives no pegs.

The mighty artillery of sauces, which the cook-fiend conjures up, is out of proportion to the simple wants and plain hunger of the guest.

, all forms of animal diet That the carnivorous cook hath gathered there: And, by commandment, will entirely live Within the bounds of vegetable food, Unmixed with savoury matters.

As already stated, it was Christmas morning, and, after breakfast, I saw the cook hurrying, and when I went out into the yard, everywhere I looked slaves met my view.

QUINCE JELLY Prepare the fruit and cook peels and cores as directed for preserving.