human
These are 'lug-sticks,' explained Vaughn.
gpt
A hook for lifting the kettles is a 'hook-stick.' I'll make some of those as soon as I finish with what I am doing now. In quick camp-making we sharpen a stick and drive it into the ground at an angle, and from this we suspend our kettle. That kind of arrangement up here in the Maine Woods is called a 'wambeck' or 'spygelia.'
human
Sounds like the name of a patent medicine,
gpt
I agree with you,
human
How did it get such an outlandish name?
gpt
I am sure I don't know. Oh, you will find lots of funny names up here in the wilds. For instance, the frame built over a cooking fire is called by the Penobscots, 'kitchi-plak-wagn.' Some others call the 'lug-stick' a 'chiplok-waugan.'
human
Taken from 'chipmunk wagon,'
gpt
No doubt, replied the guide dryly.
human
Some of the guides have changed it to 'waugan-stick.'
gpt
You make me dizzy,
human
Then here is another for you that will render you wholly unconscious, went on Cale.
gpt
The gypsies call a pot-hook a 'kekauviscoe saster.' How is that?
human
Oh, help!
gpt
I should say that was about the end of the limit,
human
In windy weather, or where fuel is scarce, continued Cale,
gpt
We did something like that in the Rockies,
human
Build a fire in this trench with fire-irons or green sticks laid across it for the fryingpan and a frame above for the kettles, and there you are. I'd like to see any kitchen do any better.
gpt
I guess we never knew very much about camping,
human
We know how to eat,
gpt
At least one of us does,
human
Know how to make a bake-oven?
gpt
Hot stones are as near as I have come to making anything of that sort,
human
I won't show you now because we are in a hurry for our supper, but some day, when we have nothing in particular to do, I will make one and we will bake some bread that you will say is the equal of anything you ever had at home. How is that steak coming on, Charlie?
gpt
Him smell like him done,
human
Serve it up. We are ready for it. Master Stacy is so hungry that he has shrunk to half his natural size.
gpt
I'll be a skeleton if I keep on,