Identifier: youngnimrodsinno00knox (find matches)
Title: The young Nimrods in North America : a book for boys
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Knox, Thomas Wallace, 1835-1896
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Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers

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n of acquiring a fortune way up North ; they discovered,like many others in this world, that fortunes cannot always be made byemigrating; but with the cheerfulness peculiar to their race they acceptedthe situation, and set about finding something that could make them aliving. Jack encountered them one day when he was looking for some-body to work around his hunting-lodge, and it did not take long to makea bargain. They had a little garden a few hundred yards from the house,and with pigs and chickens, and a cow to keep them company, they werequite contented in their mountain home. The cold of the winters wastheir great dread, as it was far more severe than anything they had everknown in their old home, and the first fall of snow always brought tearsto the eyes of Fanny. I dont like this vere snow at all, she would say, and wish it THE YOUNG NIMKODS. wouldnt come round so every year. Up here in de North, when a tilingis real white, yon say its white as snow; down South, we says white as
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BILL AS OUT-DOOR COOK. cotton, as thats the whitest thing we knows of where dere aint no snow.Wish Id never knowed how white de snow is by seeing of it. Bill used to go with Jack on his hunting excursions, especially in sum- A TRIP TO THE MOUNTAINS. 75 mer, and it was his great delight to make things comfortable for his em-ployer. He was a capital cook, and the only point on which there wasany jealousy between Bill and Fannywas when the subject of boiling po-tatoes or preparing other table sup-plies came under discussion. Fannyclaimed that, with a good tire in thekitchen, she could boil potatoes bet-ter than any other living woman, orman either. Bill did not believe ina kitchen in-doors, and said that thebest way to cook potatoes was in akettle in the open air. WheneverJack wanted a discussion to whileaway the time, he was in the habitof starting the subject of cookery,and leading it around so that Billand Fanny would become entangledin it. By-and-by it would be neces-sary to pour oil

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