[Vanished Arizona by Martha Summerhayes]@TWC D-Link bookVanished Arizona CHAPTER VI 3/13
Our party at table on the "Gila" consisted of several unmarried officers, and several officers with their wives, about eight or nine in all, and we could have had a merry time enough but for the awful heat, which destroyed both our good looks and our tempers.
The fare was meagre, of course; fresh biscuit without butter, very salt boiled beef, and some canned vegetables, which were poor enough in those days.
Pies made from preserved peaches or plums generally followed this delectable course.
Chinamen, as we all know, can make pies under conditions that would stagger most chefs.
They may have no marble pastry-slab, and the lard may run like oil, still they can make pies that taste good to the hungry traveller. But that dining-room was hot! The metal handles of the knives were uncomfortably warm to the touch; and even the wooden arms of the chairs felt as if they were slowly igniting.
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