We Have A Fine Way Of Keeping
Fish For The Following Day.
As soon as possible after they have been
caught we pack them in long, wet grass and put them in a cool spot,
and in this way they will keep remarkably fresh.
We have had an abundance of game, too - all kinds of grouse and prairie
chicken, and the men killed one antelope. The Chinaman thought that
Faye shot quite too many birds, and began to look cross when they were
brought in, which annoyed me exceedingly, and I was determined to stop
it. So one evening, after Faye had taken some young chicken to the
cook tent, I said to the doctor, "Come with me," and going over to the
tent I picked up the birds and went to some trees near by, and handing
the doctor one, asked him to help me pick them, at the same time
commencing to pull the feathers out of one myself. The poor doctor
looked as though he was wishing he had made a specialty of dementia,
and stood like a goose, looking at the chicken. Charlie soon became
very restless - went inside the tent, and then came out, humming all
the time. Finally he gave in, and coming over to us, fairly snatched
the birds from me and said, "Me flixee him," and carried the whole
bunch back of his tent where we could not see him. Since that evening
Charlie has been the most delighted one in camp when Faye has brought
birds in.
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