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    When the Cook Fell Ill
    When the Cook Fell Ill
    When the Cook Fell Ill
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    When the Cook Fell Ill

    By B. M. Bower

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    B. M. Bower, was an American author who wrote novels, fictional short stories, and screenplays about the American Old West. This is one of her stories.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherStart Publishing LLC
    Release dateFeb 27, 2014
    ISBN9781609774585
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      When the Cook Fell Ill - B. M. Bower

      WHEN THE COOK FELL ILL

      B. M. BOWER

      Start Publishing LLC

      Copyright © 2012 by Start Publishing LLC

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      First Start Publishing eBook edition January 2014

      Start Publishing is a registered trademark of Start Publishing LLC

      Manufactured in the United States of America

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      ISBN 978-1-60977-458-5

      It was four o'clock, and there was consternation in the round-up camp of the Flying U; when one eats breakfast before dawn—July dawn at that—covers thirty miles of rough country before eleven o'clock dinner and as many more after, supper seems, for the time being, the most important thing in the life of a cowboy.

      Men stood about in various dejected attitudes, their thumbs tucked inside their chap-belts, blank helplessness writ large upon their perturbed countenances—they were the aliens, hired but to make a full crew during round-up. Long-legged fellows with spurs a-jingle hurried in and out of the cook-tent, colliding often, shouting futile questions, commands and maledictions—they were the Happy Family: loyal, first and last to the Flying U, feeling a certain degree of proprietorship and a good deal of responsibility.

      Happy Jack was fanning an incipient blaze in the sheet-iron stove with his hat, his face red and gloomy at the prospect of having to satisfy fifteen outdoor appetites with his amateur attempts at cooking. Behind the stove, writhing bulkily upon a hastily unrolled bed, lay Patsy, groaning most pitiably.

      What the devil's the matter with that hot water? Cal Emmett yelled at

      Happy Jack from the

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