The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-04-22
AnNOKEA.


Jolly TIP ON maui.
The horses were happy IN their abundant
pasture, and we all felt quite fine over the pic
turesque appearance Of our camp The square
tent with its fly and the flag floating over it,
the blazing campfire and the green meadow
dotted with mules and horses, with the lava
river and lofty cliffs for back ground, made
avery pretty picture.
"Supper Is ready!" calls Mother Prue, just
as darkness closes in, and seven hungry AIN
okeas" gather around the steaming coffee and
sppetizing food.
II want cracker. Please give me cracker !;
want q cracker awfullyI" shouted Sukey, the
one who prided herself on her table manners
There, now, Henry cried Mother Grump.
There goes your coffee, as usual; never did
see such a fellow IN all my life"
well, how could ysu expect poor fellow
with felon on his finger to hold cup of cof'
fee Just so every times'
"rolly, will you throw that Dam.son jam
this way I want some Dam.son jam, awfuly,"
"Say, Mother Grump," said the sedate
Cowles, after getting himself filled up to the
point where he could criticize the food these
beans amt DONE"
"Thats So" added Henry, scornfully. al
told you you didn't know how to cook beans
when you said you could cook them done In
half an hour. Why, you must soak them over
night and cook them for ten hours IN four wa
tiers, and then bake them five hours"
WELL" said Mother Grump, they ought
TO be done. never saw such beans in all my
life; they boiled furiously for nearly an hour,
and are as hard as bullets. Wen have 'em
for breakfast"
"They won't be done for breakfast, and you
Just put it down somewhere where you wont
forget it. Wasn't raised on beans, and don't
know"
Won't somebody please say something"
remarked Sukey
A marked silence followed this request, as
it always did every time Sukey said it.
'Please pass the cracker TIM" said Leopold,
the first TO recover, as usual II want cracker
awfully"
"Please toss the butter this way"
II want some Dam.son jam"
"Polly want a cracker"
So in confusion and fun the supper progress.
Cd, table-manners taking back seat. We
were children again, and very poorly behaved
ones. Our motto WAS "Ainokea."
After supper we read aloud, played whist
and told stories till bed time. The fire was
kept up under the beans; Henry undertaking
10 show Mother Prue how 1t ought to be done.
They boiled merrily till bedtime, and then
simmered in the hot ashes till morning. And
do you suppose they we're done9 Not bit of
It, We cooked them all the next day and text
night, and then they were hard. Outwardly
we laid il on Mother Grump because she had
begun wrong, but inwardly we thought they
were bewitched. Perhaps the altitude had
something to do with it. Boiling water isn't
80 hot 1000 feet above the sea as II is below.
We had y row putting up the curtain in the
tent Somebody kept pulling it down just as
Leopold, balanced on the cracker TIM had got
1t about two thirds pinned up. 1t surely was
not Polly, she was too proper; and not Sukey,
for she wasn't we'll enough acquainted; nor
Bal, because she was very busy arranging her
meas IA mea IS a thing you know. Henry
and Cowles were talking politics, so 1t must
have been Mother Grump, though she declared
it wasn't Them when 1t was all up at last,
after several pull downs" somebody-Moth.
er Grump, perhaps-upset the cracker TIN, and
Leopold, grasping wildly at the curtains, came
down enveloped In them. We smiled, of
course, but leopold didn't think it was so very
funny at all.
Sukey's remark showed that she enjoyed 1t,
although she wasn't acquainted. "Oh, will
die! Nobody shall help me!'
"Anokea" cried Leopold, taking in the
situation" and boldly mounting his cracker
tin, succeeded in making the "measy d. p"
Dutch pins) stick; and the curtain was hung
at last
And now for sleep, "balmy Sleep" &c, quot
ed Cowles-sOmetimes called Walter for short
But Sukey talked, and talked and talked She
had taken nap after supper while the res! of
us were reading, &C.. and now she was wide
awake. Not being very well acquainted, even
Mother Grump dare MT scod her, and she
kept talking till nearly midnight The rest
of us didn't encourage her, of course not We
only answered her questions and made re-
mark occasionally, suggested by her CONVERSE
ton, but we didn't talk a perfect stream as she
did.
AT last, when even Sukey had tired herself
out and composed herself for slumber, Henry
found he had forgotten to take out his teeth,
and he had to get up and tumble around hunt
ing FOR the demiiohn Of water and tin cup
and walked everybody up again and Sukey
talked until Prue sat down on her. Whether
unexpectedly or physically, we couldn't tell
from our side of the curtain, but it was eliec