BOILED RICE.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4427, 13 March 1883, Page 2

BOILED RICE.

The story of the water which got into the hold of a ship loaded with rice, and so swelled the cargo that it burst the vessel asunder, reminds the editor of the Kinderhook Rough Notes of the captain of a North Biver sloop, who, having hired a new cook at Albany, set him to cooking rice, which he said he had done a hundred times. Telling him that he would find five pounds in the locker, and cautioning him agaiost cooking too much, the captain went about his business of loading-his vessel with pig-iron. In half an hour the newcook rushed out exclaiming : " For God's sake, captain, don't take on anymore pig-iron; we'll have a load 'of biled rice before night." The captain rushed into the cabin, where he found all the pots, kettles, pails, pans, dishes, and, even two washtubs overflowing with cooked rice, which was also seething over the top of the kettle and falling off upon the stove and the floor. " Wha't'n thunder you been doin'P" yelled the skipper, as he glanced around- " How much rice did you put in that pot?" " Put the whole of it, cap.," said the lad," and I've been doin' no thin' but balm' out rice for the last twenty minutes; Great Moses!. where does all the stuff come from?"-