The Old Man of the Mountain

"Jolly good curry!" said Bob Jackson, looking up over his spoon. "What do you say, Mac?"
"Ay," responded Alan Mackenzie, in a drawl. He was a man of few words.
"Your Hamid is certainly a treasure of a cook," Jackson went on. "Has he done you yet, Dick?"
"Probably, but I haven't found him out, so it doesn't matter," answered Dick Forrester, the third of the party. "It shows you!"
"What?" asked Mackenzie, who always required statements in full.
"Why, you owl, that it's sometimes better to rel...