. The young Nimrods in North America : a book for boys . 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 on the troubled wa-ters, which he would do by praising Fanny as the best kitchen cook he had ever known, and declaring thatBill had no superior for cooking in camp. Supper was served soon after the arrival of Joe and the boys, andwhen it was over the party sat around the fire in the principal room foran hour or two, to talk over plans for the next day. Jack t
. The young Nimrods in North America : a book for boys . 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 on the troubled wa-ters, which he would do by praising Fanny as the best kitchen cook he had ever known, and declaring thatBill had no superior for cooking in camp. Supper was served soon after the arrival of Joe and the boys, andwhen it was over the party sat around the fire in the principal room foran hour or two, to talk over plans for the next day. Jack told the boysthey must not expect too much, as the country was by no means a wilder-ness, and even the bears were becoming civilized. If things go on fortwenty years to come as they have in the twenty years just ended, saidJack, we may expect that the bears will be learning to read and write,and be regular subscribers to the papers. They must either adopt themanners of good society or be killed off, and probably they would preferthe former FANNY IN THK KITCHEN. THE YOUNG NIMEODS. CHAPTER VI. THE BOYS FIRST BEAR-HUNT. EVERYBODY rose early the next morning, and before the sun wasup the party had finished breakfast, and was ready to start for thehaunts of the bear. It was not intended to stay out overnight on themountains, as the cold was too severe to sleep in the open air, andthe elders of the party did notthink it wise to submit the youngNirnrods to a severe trial at substantial lunch was preparedby Fanny and tied into a bun-dle, which Bill carried on his backalono- with the guns that were to O f-> be trusted to George and Ilarrv o t/ whenever there was a prospect ofshooting anything. Jack sug-gested that they would find plentyof rabbits which would serve to
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