Oscar only shuffled his feet.
"I say hire," remarked Perry.

"Any of us could do it after a fashion, I dare say, but you get frightfully hungry on the water and need good stuff well cooked, and lots of it." "Yes," agreed Steve, "any of us would make an awful mess of it.
Cooking's an art." Oscar cleared his throat and frowned.

"You'd have to pay a lot for a cook," he said.

"It isn't hard, really.

I could do it--if I were going along." "That's so," George Hanford confirmed.