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Show TZ7. "Give the baby a biscuit then." "I did but I burned them and he jus' spits 'em out." "Take one, Sunny-scrape off the burned part and pour some hot xratcr over i t and s t i r in a l i t t l e honey, then try spooning i t into his mouth." " B i l l , " olnf said coming over to his bunk. "I'm not sick-be a l l right by morning." Sunny sat up xrith Bill that night, kept the f i r e going and brought him quinine and xrater. Olaf came out of the lean-to early in the morning and xrent out for xrood. When he came back, he told Sunny to go in and get some sleep. Everything seemed to Bill noxr a l i t t l e unreal, but as soon as Sunny had gone in to sleep, Bill called Olaf over and told him xrhere the canned milk xras hidden,-'.to keep i ts hiding place secret^ and to ration i t out to L i t t l e Bill. Weasel came out of the lean-to. "Where's breakfast?" Bill could hear the hate in Olaf's voice as he said. "There's no one to cook your breakfast or didn't ya knoxr B i l l ' s sick?" Bill heard a l l of their voices for the next fexr hours, but they xrere as though he xrere apart and not involved. He heard Olaf say to Sunny as he res playing cards and worrying over his g i r l randy. "Sunny if you ask me once more if I think Bandy's waiting for you, so help me God, I'm going to s t a r t xrishin' she's married some storekeeper!" |