Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 117, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1910 — The Order Pleased the Cook. [ARTICLE]

The Order Pleased the Cook.

The following story is told on a missionary of the China inland misssion, a bachelor keeping house for himself in the southern part of China: One morning in ordering his dinner he wished to tell his cook to buy a chicken. Instead of saying “ye” for chicken be aspirated the word, saying, “Buy me a ‘che.’ ” His cook thought that was an eminently proper command and went about his marketing in high good humor. At noon the missionary found no chicken cooked —in fact, no dinner at all, for his cook had not returned. About dark the man rums back, saying: “This was not a good day for buying wives, and I have been all day looking for one, but at last I found one for you. She is rather old and not pretty, but you can have her cheap. I have promised S4O for her.”