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Show -9. for you." Bill quickly made a f i r e . He got his sour dough out of the cubbard and.saving a start', s t i r r e d s a l t , sugar, and a l i t t l e baking soda into i t stiffening fct wp with some flour. He put two big f l a t pans down by the baby and started slapping out big spoonfulls of doughi* If the miners had to work a l l night, they'd need bread and coffee as soon as he could get it to them:, and he put the f i r s t pan on top of the warming oven and put more wood on the f i r e. The baby started crying but when Bill started slapping out spoonfulls of dough again i t stopped and turned i t ' s head, x^atching B i l l ' s hand, from the bowl to the pan, from the bovrl to the pan.~ "Haahh so i t wasn't my presence you x-janted but the plops on the pan? Huh?" When he finished he put the candle he'd been working by closer to the baby and then could see i t had dropped the biscuit.- He put i t again into i t ' s x*aving hands and stood looking down a t the baby-really seeing i t in good light for the f i r s t time.' It x*as a husky fair-haired, good looking on© but he shook his head; i t ' s future was surely uncertain if i t ' s folks didn't survive that caire-in. The l a s t food pack t r a i n that could get over the mountain pass u n t i l spring had come and gone. If there ms not a lot of snow, and game stayed p l e n t i f u l , there would be enough to eat; but if the snow came early and the deer left-"You're surely not doing |