The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1930-02-28

A Home
In The Wilderness

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My wife, as a prudent house
keeper, was no less delighted than
the children with this discovery;
the sight of the dishes also pleas
ed her greatly, for she longed to
see us eat once more like civil
lied beings. We went into the
kitchen and there found prepar-
ations for a truly sumptuous meal.
Two forked sticks were planted
In the ground and on either side
of the fire; on these rested a rod
from which hung several tempting
looking fish; opposite them hung
a goose from a similar contriv-
ance, slowly roasting while the
gravy dropped into a large shell
placed beneath it. In the center
sat a great pot, from which issued
the smell of a most delicious soup.
To crown this splendid array,
stood an open hogshead full of
Dutch cheeses. All this was very
pleasant to two hungry travellers,
but was about to beg my wife
to spare the poultry until our
stock should have increased, when
she, %perceiving my thought, quick
ly relieved my anxiety. 'This is
not one of our geese" she said,
''but a wild bird Ernest killed"
"Yes," said Ernest, "it is a PEN
gum, l think; it let me get quite
close, so that I knocked it on the
head with a stick. Here are its
head and feet, which I preserved
to show you; the bill is, you see,
narrow and curved downward, and
the feet are webbed. 1t had fun
ny little bits of useless wings,
and it's eyes looked Sc solemnly
and sedately at me that 1 was al
most ashamed to kill it. Do you
think it must have been a pen
gulin?"
Fl have little doubt on the mat
ter, my boy" and I was about to
make a few remarks on the hab-
its of this bird, when my wife in
terrupted me and begged us to
come to dinner, and continue our
natural history conversation at
some future time. We then sat
down before the appetizing meal
prepared for us, u gourds COM
ing for the first time into use,
and having done it full justice,
produced the cocoanuts by way
of dessert.
Here is better food for your
little FRIEND said 1 to Fritz, who
had been vainly endeavoring to
persuade the monkey to taste
dainty morsels of the food we had
been eating; "the poor little an
imal has been accustomed to
nothing but it's mothers milk; /
fetch me a saw, one Of you"
1 then, after extracting the milk
of the nuts from their natural
holes, carefully cut the shells in
Ildll, Inuo pl Of1ulhS oCfSl al llO1 .
useful basins. The monkey was
perfectly satisfied with the milk,
and eagerly sucked the corner of
a handkerchief dipped in it. Fritz
now suddenly recollected his de-
licious wine, and producing his
flask, begged mother to taste it.
TRY it first yourself" said 1;
Fritz did so, and 1 instantly saw
by his ~countenance that the liquor
had passed through the first stage
of fermentation and had become
vinegar.
Never mind, my boy" said my
prudent wife, when she learned
the cause of his wry faces, "we
have wine already, but no vim
egar; l am really pleased at the
transformation"
The sun was now rapidly sink
ing behind the horizon, and the
poultry, retiring for the night,
warned us that we must follow
example. Having offered up
our prayers, we lay down on our
beds, the monkey crouched down