Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 156, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1915 — He Was Heap Careful. [ARTICLE]

He Was Heap Careful.

Said a western mining man at the Ast<pr hotel in New York city the other day, according to the Times: “We have a bachelors’ mess in the mining camp where I’m located, and we usually have a Chinaman to do the cooking. Some of the Orientals are fine cooks, after they get over a few of the peculiar ideas they have imbibed from their own country’s oddities in the culinary line. “Not long ago we got a new Chinaman as cook. A couple of days later one of the fellows got a pedigreed Irish terrier pup given to him —a real dog. My friend had to go up to one of the mines that afternoon, and he turned the puppy over to the new Chinaman. ’You be mighty careful of this dog,’ he said to the cook. ‘Me be heap careful,’ was the answer. “That night, at dinner, the new Chinaman brought on, with great ceremony, a covered dish. “ ‘Me heap careful,’ he remarked, as, with a smile of pride, he removed the cover. "Underneath was the pedigreed pup, neatly cooked in the best Chinese style.”