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Show 120. a bet i t ' s getting ready to bloxr again." "I was afraid of i t Bill, and t h a t ' s the reason Bunny and I travelled back so light xrith just the small game, the l i v e r and this hunk. We dressed the bear out and hung i t high and xray back in the overhang-Blocked the entrance- so xre've got a supply there t h a t ' l l feed us and the hungry at Blue Bixrg xrhen I can get back to i t ." They had fresh bear liver that night. Bill xrould have been the f i r s t to say that this bear liver x;as the strongest l i v e r he'd ever tasted. He skimed i t , and cut a l l the membranes out of i t , and put them aside to freeze for l i t t le B i l l ' s broth in case he didn't get any thin-- b e t t e r . Then he sliced, the liver very thin, cooked, slivers of .garlic In lard, dipped the liver in flour and fried it up crisp and broxm. Weasel got up to oat, but xrent right back to his bunk a f t e r dinner, and he didn't get up the next morning. There x?as r e a l ly no reason for any of them to get up. This Barch wind had bloxm so hard during the night that Bill thought the cabin might bloxr over-1" 'The ceaking of the shack or the xrind moaning had axiakoned L i t t l e Bill and he 'd stayed ax;ake for hours. Bill tried to comfort him-finally moved the baby's bed over by his bunk and held his hand talking quietly to him u n t i l he xrent back to sleep. |