San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-09-29

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serve for cushions, and all that did not
belong to her she had bundled out of
sight into that followed side 1 have
mentioned as being intended for cattle
After we had sufficiently admired the
performance she told us she had a mind
to give us a supper of broth. 'But, F"
says she, "the don has forgotten that
we must eat, and hath sent us neither
bread nor flesh nor salt. !"
This put us to a stumble, for how to
get these things we knew not, but Moll
declared she would get all she needed if
we could only find the money.
"Why, howl" asks Jack. "You know
not their gibberish. %
"That may be, answers she, "but I
warrant the same language that bought
me this petticoat will get us a supper. 1"
So we gave her what money we had,
and she went off a-marketing, with as
much confidence as if she were born
Barbary Moor. Then Jack falls to thank
ing God for blessing him with such a
daughter, at the same time taking no
small credit to himself for having bred
to her such perfection, and in the midst
of his encomiums, being down in the hol-
low searching for his hammer, he cries !:
"Plague take the careless baggage.
She has spilled all our nails, and here's
an hours work to pick 'em upn'
This accident was repaired, however,
and Moll's transgression forgotten when
she returned with an old woman carry
ing her purchases. Then were we forced
to admire her skill in this business, for
she had bought all that was needful for
a couple of meals, and yet had spent but
half our money. Now arose the difficult
question how to make fire, and this
Jack left us to settle by our own devices,
he returning to his own occupation.
Mol resolved we should do our cooking
outside the house, so here we built up a
kind of gate with stones, and contriving
to strike spark with the back of jack
knife and stone upon heap of dried
leaves we presently blew up a fine
flame, and feeding this with the ends of
cane we had cut and some charcoal we
at last got a royal fire ON which to set
our pot of mutton. And into this pot we
put rice and a multitude of herbs from
the garden, which by the taste we
thought might serve to make a savory.
And indeed when it began to boil the
odor was so agreeable that we would
have Jack come out to smell it, and he
having praised it very highly we, in re-
turn, went in to look at his handiwOrk
and praise that This we could do very
heartily and without hypocrisy, for he
had worked we'll and made a rare good
job, having made a very seemly parti-
ton across the room by mailing of the
canes perpendicularly to that kind of
floor that hung over the followed por-
ton, thus making us now three rooms
out of one. At one end he had left an
opening to enter the cavity below and
the floor above by the little ladder that
stood there, and these canes were set
not so close together but that air and
light could pass betwixt them, and yet
from the outer side no eye could see
within, which was very commodious;
also upon the floor above he had found
sundry bundles of soft, dried leaves, and
these, opened out upon the surface of
both chambers, made very sweet, con-
venient bed upon which to lie. Then,
Dawson Offering Moll her choice, she
took the upper floor for her chamber,
leaving us two the lower, and so, it be-
ing near shutdown by this time, we to
our supper in the sweet, cool air of
evening, all nightly content with one
another, and not less satisfied with our
stew, which was indeed most savory and
palatable. This done, we took a turn
round our little domain, admiring the
many strange and wonderful things that
grew there, especially the figs, which,
though yet green, were wondrous pleas
ant to eat, and laying out my plans for
the morrow, how to get this wilderness
into order, tear out the worthless herbs,
dig the soil, etc, Dawson's thoughts
running ON the building of an clubhouse
| for the accommodation of our wine,
tools and such like and meditating ON
dishes to give us our repast, and at length,
when these divers subjects were no more
to be discussed, we turned into our dor
mitories and fell asleep as happy as
princes.
CHAPTER Kill
The surprising activity with which