The Indian Fairy Book: From the Original Legends

part in the preparations for the evening meal. When all was nearly

ready, a delicate voice was heard singing in the last corner of the lodge, and keeping up its dainty carol all the way to the fire-place, the fourth kettle joined the three cooks, and they all fell to with all their might, and in the best possible humor, to dispatch their work.

It was not long before the big ke...