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Show 1B7. it down." "He was a big 'un all right. While you get it ready I'll get some of these men to help me dig the barbecue-pit." Bill got a ball of garlic out of the supply pantry. £ach clove that he pulled off had a little green sprout on it. He sliced up most of them, but, taking four over to the window box, he pushed a clove down into each corner of it. He took his hunting knife, and with it's point made deep stabs in the bear meat, and into each of these he stuffed a slice of garlic and a small piece of bacon. Then, frying up some slices so he'd have some grease to put in the biscuits, he flour that measured out more than half of the/ was left. He said to himself, I'll go out and meet that wagon train if I have to now and walk some grub back • He heard Little Bill fussing and figured he'd awakened to the smell of bacon cooking. He took a slice over to him. Then he took a lemon and squeezed the juice from it, with a fork he then scraped every bit of pulp from it into the cup, stirred in a couple of tablespoons of the strawberry jam, some warm water, and took it over to Little Bill. He looked at it a minute then tasted it, very carefully, and then drank it down smacking his lips. "Liked that pink lemonade didn't you?" |