New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-09-09

the guide to catch horned toads for him to make
incidence" He purposed to steep these reptiles in
whisky
And you don't mean to say that no drinks it'll
exclaimed Diana
Certainly" replied the Doctor; che takes it as
whisky toaddy."
He conided TO the guide his fixed purpose of go
ing away the next time our weekly messenger re-
turned to Nordhoff. Meanwhile tho messenger
brought him letter which threw him into great ex-
element. One of his friends az San Buenaventura
mad been robbed and he must once to have the
thief arrested. lie wanted to start on the instant
9oclock at night-io travel the forty-odd miles
afoot. "What good can you do by going' Your
friend can have the robber arrested better and
quicker than YOU can"
"Oh no, he can't do It,"
"Why can't hei"
"Oh, he a ladyn
We did not believe the story, because we knew
from the guide that Hing meant to go before he got
the letter; but we heard afterward that Chinese
woman, to whom he SAID that he had entrusted
sum Of money and some jewelry, had really been
robbed by one of her countrymen. We could only
keep Hing until morning by enlarging upon the
dangers of the trail. He passed the night grooming
and crying. and went of in tears, along with the
messenger as soon as he had breakfasted.
We sent to San Buelaventura for another cook,
and our messenger brought up the new Chlnaman on
horseback after four days. l believe that his name
sChm, but jim is what we call him. We were
quite taken aback when we first saw HIM. he was
30 smart and clean. He wore a spotless white
apron. a quilted blue Silk Jacket, aud q Leghorn
hat. We looked at ourselves and at each other. and
realized that we were dirty. Diana went to her
tent and put new ribbon her hat. The owner
of superuumerary pair of trousers lent them TO
the most rag ged of his friends. Several OF got
nail brushes and glycerne soap and went to work at
our hands Do what we would we could not get
up 10 the level of the new cook, but we battered
ourselves that he would soon have to come down to
onrs. This, however. he never did, lifeof elegant
leisure enabled him TO keep Clean He did not
cook. He did not know how. We tried him in all
branches Of the profession and decided that his ig
norance of cooking was the only thing which tran
scended his ignorance of the English language. SO
we got the meals ourselves; and he smiled at for
thirty dollars month. He declined to admit that
he did not understand English, and when we gave
HIM an order, and he had answered All right"
there was pleasing uncertainty what would come
of il. II we told him to save a thing he always
threw il away; and il we asked whether dish
done or not he invariably said Eyes," and brought
il to the table whatever it's condition. The word
right were his staple replies to everything. The
other day Ferguson tried to give HIM certain in
structIous:
See here, Jim: Saturday and Sunday"
"All light "-going away under the impression
that he had brought the interview to salts
factory Close.
"Coufound you, what is all rightf How do
you know what | am going to sayf"
Some Of us fell into the deusion, humorously
treated IN " Little Dorritt" that the best way to
make n foreigner understand ycu is TO shout at him
In broken English. We addressed Jim IN voice of
thunder and in n or less complete imltat on of
the pigeon dialect-such adding double c toeyery
word which will bear that suiix, using the pronoun
him" for all genders. and 4" catch 'em" for get"
and breaking up sentences into small and imper-
feet fragments We were not ashamed when des-
sert came on, TO hand Jim our dirty plates. and
scream. Take him-washee-vou sabeel" But
must say that was startled when of our party.
remembering that the Chnaman substitutes for r.
innocentIy cried out, Il say, jim. you catch EN-
lice for dinuer!p
II was a great Joy for us to discover in the inter-
regnum after Kings departure that Harvey could
cook Ike an angel. I do not know why that should
have surprised Us, for rs said when lie first
10 MS, he for many years a carpenter in the
British navy aud shipcarpenter can do anything.
lie cooked with conscience and refinement; his
bread was perfect: his buildings we're exquisltcly
finished and there was q rich warm tone about his
ints which Hing never acquired oven in his days
of enthusiasm. IL was Harvey who sustained MS
under the affecting dispensation OF Jim. | rather
think that his greatest triumph Is that famous lux
ury Of the forecaste plum duif. We had all en-
countercd that composition in sea-nOveIs but never
in real life and there q burst OF aDplauo when
he promised TO make IL for us, and general rush to
the Kitchen when the manufacture began Tho IN
gradients are -four, suet. raisns citron, eggs and
milk: and the duff is boiled in bag and eaten with
a ocnerous hot sauce. When Harvey made il the
company generally asked for another the next day.
We always resolved to have the remainder fried for
akfast but we never succeeed in leaving any at
the end Of dinner, until our very last day. when we
gave our whole minds to the job Of getting one big
enough Harvey says that on his ship the
crew agreed TO lump their allowance on holiday
and have one gigantic plum duff for all hands. In
default of an adequate pudding-coh they boiled 1t
in pair of clean duck trousers. and IL was brought
10 the table unbroken, looking like the legs aud
waist of some unfortunate gentleman notified all
over with purple spots. lilo adds that the captain.
who came to see il the men were comfortable. ar
rived just in time to be astonshed by the spectacle
Perhap, we might have been tempted TO do some
thing of the kind; only by the time plum duff was
revealed to us our camp could not furnish a
whole pair OF trousers. j. II. e. IL.
LEPROSY IN THE NORTHWEST.