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Show 19. thenV slamming it shut, put some small pieces of firewood into the stove? He picked up the coffee pot and poured everyone coffee; put more coffee and x<jater in the pot and put it on the front lid.1 The men would sit a while longer than usual, because this was a sad business they had to attend to this morning.- Sunny was the first to finish his breakfast,--and when he started for the door Bill got up from the table and went out to get the cradle and baby's clothes he'd left in the wagon,' saying to Sunny, "Will you help me hang the deer I brought back this morning1.'" They carried it around to the north side of the shack and hung it on a hook Bill had fixed to swing out from the cabin.1 When they came back? the other miners were ready to leaver Bill pu$ a piece of canvas on the table and poured into it the lunch biscuits he'd had cooling.' Tying the four corners together? he handed it to Weasel.' "Take these in the wagon with youy and get Sunny to help you load any extra logs you might need? I threw off the wood 3you hauled last night as close as I could to the mine entrance.'" ii Weasel said? "Dad'd better do the figurin', and Bill nodded. The men went silently about their work J Dad helped Bill carry in the boxes.- Everyone would feel easier when this day was over? Dady Weasel and Sunny rode in the wagon? The other men had started walking.' condensed Bill got a can of the/milk from the grub box and poured the thick milk into warm water he had in a cup.^ He held it to the baby's mouth. The baby drank it as. if he'd never tasted |