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Show 19B5. out to the chair as though he knew it were his. Sunny picked up the chair and took it in and put it down by Little Bill's bed. Bill made up the fire, and soon the coffee was boiling and the smell of baking bread filled the cabin. Lunch Mouth and Sunny brought in the leg of bear meat. Lunch Mouth yelled, "Time for the feed!" The men came in and cut big slices of meat to put between their biscuits, which Bill had made extra large and flat. He filled their cups with coffee. Lunch Mouth said, "This is the best bear meat and bread a man ever ate!" Now plans were made for leaving and taking the rest of the barbecued meat to the sick at Blue Burg. Lunch Mouth asked Bill if he could board in his shack next winter and Bill nodded saying, "It appears that Little Bill will be staying on with us. I've gone through all his parents things, and there's nothing that could help us find his relatives." Sunny was talking to a man named Dirk, who had also asked to board with them next winter. Bill heard him say to Sunny, I need another hand. Swede has decided he isn't going to be strong enough to make this first trip. I pay a dollar a day. The job will be hunting for camp meat and just helping?" "I can't cook." "This child '11 swear to that!" Olaf said. "I brought a good horse for you to " "I'll take the job!" Sunny said. |