Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-03-14
COOKING IN CAMP.
Tho Doctors Experience With a
Luscious Trout.
A Hungry Party on the BaIsam Bed Before
the Blazing Camp .Fre---The
Laugh Of "a Mocking Loon
and its Effect.
Fred Mather in san francisco A,genu-.

The sun was not ever two hours high
when we we reached the camping place on
the lake, and it was necessary to utilize
every moment to prepare Tor night and get
supper for three hungry men AID aravenoua
boy. The doctor had insisted on having
fresh trout for supper. and sooD found the
boat where it had been hidden under log,
aud shortly after had bis heavily'loaded
trolhDg-spoon in the depths Of the lake,
where The salmon trout lie IN the cooler
waters. The colonel gathered wood, / had
pitched the tent, and Jack was bringing
balsam bougbs, which l carefully stripped
of large stems and laid in tapping rows
until soft, springy bed, redolent Of the
most delightful odor that ever beguile9
tired woodsmen to slumber, wss completed.
The declining s2a lit the tree tops on the
hills, and the clouds hung lazily over the
water as if to see Themselves in that Noun
tain.lramed mirror; or, possibly, they know
the lake WEE the result Of their weeping,
ard now with chta,ful faces they loved to
hover over it
A noisy kirg6sher flew up and wound up
his reel on @ limb, disappointed at the re-
suit Of its last dive, and Is about from the
doctor procla; med that he had strike.
! After 6 long, quiet reelinglD, the fab
made fair struggle for freedom which
Dent the short, atoIt rod, and caused the
doctor come anxiety lest the line should
psss under the boat and get fouled or be
sawed Of Nothing of the kind happened,
and in few minutes more splendid FIVE
FOUNDER was laid before "a. Tho king.
fisher also ssy it, aad chirped his appro,
baton Of the invasion Of bis domain and
, tho capture OF a fish greater than he could
master. The colonel and the doctor sat
on log by the open front of the tent and
argued how troat should be cooked.
Il tell you" said the colonel,
"a TROUT, TO De COOKED 70 PERFECTION,
should never be dressed at all. Just roll
it up in wet clay, about an inch thick all
around, lay it in bed OF hot ashes, cover
it up with live Goals and let it bake. A
trout the size of this one wants from half
to three quarters Of an hour, ahd when the
clay comes off the skin comes with it and
the inaide arrangements are shrivelled up
10 nothing. The fish ia cooked in its OWE
iuices, and is pot dried up" And he
smscEed his lips at the thought. But
bad some doubt about the colonels exper
fence In this matter, and suspected that al
he knew oft he had read somewhere, for bt
was not as much of a woodsman as he fat
tered himselft to be- and in that he resembl
ed most OF ps who DO little camping.
The doctor had his own idea, and, while
the colonel was delivering bic lecture OF
camp cookery, had split the FISH down tn
back. Then, laying his pipe on the log, b.
looked mp and said: Colonel, this is 70.
!, trout, and am going to cook it in my way
and when yoa eat 1t you will say 1t IS tn
= best iish you ever put tooth in. 1t vii
= wrap around your heart like q yard Of ne'
flannel" He then ran twig through tn
{, gil!s, put splint across the halves 10 kee
: it spread open, laid strip Of bacon owe
u the head, ard set the tvig in two Crotche
. before the tire, 90 that the fsh hung Hit
;. the flesh side to the Goals, and the dripPin
. bacon would keep it moist,
. Don't you salt it before Il is cooked
. asked the oolnneeii.
! NO; it is best to sslt it afterward"
J. Il like to have salt cooked into fab.
:" YES" cbimed in Jack" and pepPe
J. toe"
= They appealed to me, and ! intimate
!. that if there wss plenty of it. and it wi
= ready that moment, could eat
p WITH SALT, AsHEs, Oh BAND,
20 either on the outside or on the bsckbon
at l spread blanket on the boughs, al
n, stretched full lengeth On it. The sun vi
if nearly down, and q wood thrush pour'
ys forth Ito short, sweet notes in the thickt
r, the crickets chirpsd below the bed of b
be Sans, and the bacon sizzled. The doct
el and Jack went for some light wood
lie make cheerful fire, and the colonel fuss
lie around. muttering something about So
lis and then went to the spring for watt
III Jack came in, threw down his wood, al
&c. then asked if there was any pepper in I
ed camp. told him there wa, and he we
n hunting for il. Presently the other +
came is, and after glance st the fish
in doctor pronounced it done, took it from {
Q FIRE, opened the salt box, and sprinkled