‘You may rejoice to hear that we have got rid of our very wicked cook.... But it is funny to have no cook at all!! Mrs. Beutel’s old mother does all the cooking; perhaps Mrs. Beutel helps a little; and it puts her quite into spirits. If we were not likely to go into Amritsar in ten or eleven days, I think that we should be obliged to procure a cook. It is a most unusual thing for Europeans to cook in a Panjab _May_; every day likely to get warmer and warmer! And if Mrs. J. fell ill, as she did last year--her daughter is constantly off and on with fever--where should we be? In a laughable dilemma, I should say; for I don’t think that Mr. Beutel could cook; and I am sure that _I_ can’t! I forget--“can’t” is not a Missionary word! But I really don’t see what I could do, except boil eggs; we have plenty of them. You know that Fairy Frisket did not fancy a kitchen!