The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1896-03-14

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freshment, and next, Moll, being awoke
from her dreams and eager to be doing,
sets herself to sort out our goods, such
as belong to us--as tools, etc. ON one
side, and such as belong to her-as pip
kins and the rest-on the other Leav-
ing her to this employment, Dawson and
l, armed with n knife and bagging hook,
betake ourselves to great store of canes
stacked in one corner of the garden, and
sorting out those most proper to our pur-
pose we Topped them all of an equal
length, and shouldering as many as we
could carried them up to our house.
Here we found Moll mighty jubilant in
having got her work done, and admira-
bly, she had done it, to be sure, for hav-
ing found long recess in the wall she
had brushed it out clean with whisp
of herbs and stored up her crooks, ac.
cording to their size, very artificial, with
dish of oranges plucked from the tree
mt our door on one side and "a dish Of
almonds ON the other, pipkin standing
betwixt 'em with handsome posy of
roses in it. She had spread a mat ON the
floor and folded up our fine blankets to
serve for cushions, and all that did not
belong to her she had bundled out of
sight into that followed side l have
mentioned as being intended for cattle
After we had sufficiently admired the
performance she told us she had mind
to give us supper of broth. "But,"
says she, ''the don has forgotten that
we must eat, and hath sent us neither
bread nor flesh nor salt. "
This put us to 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, how?" 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.
So we gave her what money we had,
and she went off a-marketing, with az
much confidence as if she were born
Barbary Moor. Then Jack falls to thank
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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 upi''
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.
Moll resolved we should do our cooking
outside the house, SO here we built up
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
fame, and feeding this with the ends of
cane We had cut and some charcoal we
at last got royal fire on which to set
our pot of mutton. And into this pot we
put rice and multitude Of herbs from
the garden, which by the taste We
thought might serve to make 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 well and made rare good
job, having made very seemly parti-
tion across the room by mailing of the
canes perpendicularly to that kind Of
floor that hung over the followed por-
tion, 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 eve 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 sundown 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 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 fol
the morrow, how to get this wilderness
into order, tear ont the worthless herbs
dig the soil, etc, Dawson's thoughts
running on the building of an outhous'
for the accommodation of our wine
tools and such like and meditating oil
dishes to give us our repast, and at length
when these divers subjects were no NOR
to be discussed, we turned into our dor
mitories and fell asleep as happy a
princes