. The Big Sandy Valley. A history of the people and country from the earliest settlement to the present time. and me in our search for rocks, while father brought aplentiful supply of mud. We did not succeed in bakinga journey cake in our own house that night, but beforeanother day came to a close we had at one end of the MAKING READY FOR COOKING 59 house as good a fireplace as could be found in any ofthe houses in On that first night Mrs. Boone insisted that we doour cooking in her cabin, and I shall never forget howsweet was the journey cake mother made. A good cookshe was, a
. The Big Sandy Valley. A history of the people and country from the earliest settlement to the present time. and me in our search for rocks, while father brought aplentiful supply of mud. We did not succeed in bakinga journey cake in our own house that night, but beforeanother day came to a close we had at one end of the MAKING READY FOR COOKING 59 house as good a fireplace as could be found in any ofthe houses in On that first night Mrs. Boone insisted that we doour cooking in her cabin, and I shall never forget howsweet was the journey cake mother made. A good cookshe was, and is; but one can hardly expect her to showvery much skill when she has only a fire built in frontof a log in the forest, with such a stone as can befound most easily on which to spread the dough. However, when she has a regular fireplace, with aflat rock, that seems to have been made especially fora pan, and with the smoke and cinders flying up thechimney instead of directly upon the cake, she can do, 6o HANNAH OF KENTUCKY as on that first night, nicer cooking than any otherwoman that ever Hved. We had no beds save the bare earth; but motherpromised that we should soon be able to sleep in com-fort, for turkeys and pigeons were so abundant thatit would not take father many days, providing theIndians did not molest him, to bring home plenty offeathers. When we lay down to sleep that night, I heardmother thanking God that w
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