Looking suspiciously about him, for there was something in their manner that he failed to understand, the cook thrust his hand into the dish and took from it a great slice of fish, which he crammed into his mouth.
The cook shot a doubting glance at the Old One, but went none the less, and came back wiping his lips.
Oh, the cook was in a rare and merry mood, for he had drunk more sack than was good for him from the cask he had marked as his own; but as he had waxed exceeding gay and haughty, the sack had dulled his wits and he was drunker than he knew.
The cook smiled and rubbed his round paunch (yet cringed a little), for he was of a mind, being never slow in such matters, to filch from the cabin table whatever he might desire and his heart warmed to hear the good victuals named.
Down in the hold the kettle boiled right merrily, and the cook swelled with pride that he had a mate to carry and fetch.
But the cook went down below and they heard him bawling to his mate to come and help break out the cabin stores, and word went through the ship of what was afoot.
Cook went out on three strikes, being led to bite at a slow one in the critical moment.
Ty shot up a zigzag foul that Ballinger managed to just grasp, after staggering back and forth like a drunken man in the effort to judge its eccentric motions; and Matty's offering was taken by Cook in left field.
Do not cook any cereal the mornings we have oranges or grape-fruit--the starch and acid are likely to make a disturbance inside.
Sidenote: The Cook Book] Presently, she found a warm, soft place behind a sand dune.
A classmate of mine used to indulge himself in floral catalogues when he wanted to rest his mind with light literature, but I never heard of a cook book as among the 'books for Summer reading' that the booksellers advertise.
The cook had dutifully pounded the steaks before placing the same on the fire, so that if they seemed tough it was not his fault.
Still, he had a number of women folks on the place, a sister keeping house for him, with a Chinese cook to attend to the kitchen part of the establishment.
On the way home Mrs. Whiting said to her husband: "Judge, are you very sure that what the cook said to you this afternoon about Miss Strong and Mr. Morrison is true?
Katy had been cook in the Strong family ever since they had moved to Lilac Valley.
She got it," said Eugene Snow, "when she undertook to clean Peter Morrison's workroom on an evening when she and her cook were having supper with him.
According to men, the gas and the telephone and the electric light and the taxes and food and cook pay for themselves.
I've taught him to make a number of snares, and he knows where to find and how to cook his greens and potatoes and onions and where to find his pickles and how to make lemonade and tea, and what to use for snake bite.
But you shouldn't skin them; you want the skin to hold the meat together when it begins to cook tender; and you should be able to peel it off and discard it if it burns or gets smoky in the cooking.
She had gone to the kitchen and wiped dishes and asked to be taught how to cook things of which John was particularly fond.
Do you suppose for one minute that I'm going to allow to get away from me the only woman I ever did see that could cook b'ah meat fit to eat?
Sir, humanity it is so outrage' by the poor cook that I have pity!
Next day I stayed out till after midnight, and the cook told me that the wedded couple had made a good supper and had gone to bed.
That fact had been fixed in his mind by his recollecting the vacancy of the prospect when his cook told him that a lady and a gentleman were in his studio: he had wondered there was not a carriage nor a cab at his door.
His neighbour had a sociable manner and evidently was accustomed to quick transitions; she turned from her other interlocutor with a methodical air, as a good cook lifts the cover of the next saucepan.
Our only business here is to cook our bloaters and eat them, which we could not do in the public room below.
Appeals to the porter at an adjacent warehouse, to Handsome Mary the hostess, and Brandy Nan the cook at the Sailors' boarding-house, were equally fruitless.
The cook got out his wire, apportioned a proper amount of sausage-meat, spat it on his hands and fell to work!
Then the cook baked a broad, flat, wheaten cake, greased it well with the sausage, and started towards us with it.
The cook was slovenly, and so was the table, and it had no cloth on it.
The boys started some grumbling reply, but the cook called them to supper just then, and, one animalism becoming overshadowed by another, they forgot their rancour in thoughts of supplying their hunger.
The Mexican cook had just begun his fragrant task, so a half hour would elapse before these Arabs were fed.
Which it's shore a sin Jack Cook ain't no better pistol shot!
Cook got a crease in the face--a mere wound of the flesh.
Cook and Watkins separated to twenty paces and turned to face each other.
The homely bit of dinner turned out to be a very excellent repast; for Mrs. Mugby prided herself upon her powers as a cook and housekeeper, and to produce a good dinner at a short notice was a triumph she much enjoyed.
I had no idea I would be selected, as it was acknowledged I was the best cookin camp and Capt.
Finally I was impressed how to fix the stuff and gave the company advice, telling them how to cook it; for them to scorch and scrape the hair off; this had a tendency to kill and purify the bad taste that scalding gave it.
I was given the important position of chief cook for the head mess.
If I'd a house full of Lem Camps to cook for, I'd think I was next door to heaven.
I'm going to cook the best dinner I ever cooked--and make a milkpail full of gravy.
But would the ladies who cook the barbecue stew care for tomatoes, do you think?
I reasoned that if I was a cook I'd know how to make everything in the world to eat and could have what I pleased.
Then our old cook got married, and I didn't like our new one.
About that time Ma began giving me a regular allowance, so I haunted the baker and candy shops instead of the kitchen, and the cook idea declined.
Our old cook had always encouraged me in my ambition.
Resolving to put him completely out of her mind, Grace went into the kitchen to consult with the cook concerning the day's marketing.
So to console myself in my banishment I'd resolve that when I grew up I'd be a cook and live in a kitchen all the time.
Generally in about a week's time Ma would relent, and, as our cook was fond of me, I'd be reinstated in my beloved realm of eats.
The new cook said I was a nuisance, and complained to Ma.
As we did not find it possible to cook anything even at night, our store of hard tack was drawn upon, and every man stuffed his pockets full.
Each man's portion was dished out by the cook under supervision of one of the petty officers of the commissary department.
They found things as they had left them, and proceeded to get a meal, though Tom said it would be best not to cook anything, or even to make coffee, for fear the odors would enable the searchers to trail them.
Tom had once paid, when a new cook had been engaged, and when the pastry formed a feature of the meal.
The one finally adopted was that Tom and Mr. Damon should enter the storeroom, casually, as if in search of food to cook for supper.
Of course there's a hired man who'll come in to do the milking and the heavy work, and his sister will cook and 'tidy up' for us.
It was no easy matter to cook and serve a dozen breakfasts in the rooms at any and all hours; to cater and prepare meals and then to wait up until midnight that the players might have a hot supper after the performance.
Together you cancook up something to placate the irate husband.
Just now the doings of the Redford cook were of more concern to him than Mary's doings.
Then she put on her hat and stole forth to intercede for the collie with the cook of his establishment, a kindly-looking person, who had once been observed to pat his head.
It was growing late again and there was nothing to do but to try fishing once more and cook the wild turkey.
She wanted to cook an omelette immediately, but Amrei begged to be allowed to light the first fire in the house that was to prepare something for herself, and asked that she might cook something for her parents too.
Of course, it was out of the question that Margaret should travel alone, and Mr. Anstruther made arrangements for his housekeeper and cook to escort her to her journey's end.
For her grandfather's estimable cook and housekeeper was a grim old woman who ruled the maids with a rod of iron, and who, even in the days of her childhood, had never had a kind look or a smile for Margaret.
Because ghosts--whoever heard of them wanting a fire, either to cook with, or else keep warm?
The fire was burning briskly, and a nice red bed of embers between the side stones invited the attention of the cook of the morning, namely himself.
