In the Sunk Lands — page 147: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

134 IN THE SUNK LANDS. you,’’ said Mr. Jimmerson, coming up at that moment, ‘‘ an’ see ef I can’t add somethin’.”’ ‘“T don’t believe you can,” said Bob, ‘unless it is the ‘grub.’ We brought only what we needed on the train, intending to purchase here’a few staple articles, such as sugar, coffee, flour w ‘Flour,’ interrupted Mr. Jimmerson. ‘Better take corn meal. Y’all kin make more use o’hit and hit’s a great deal easier to handle.” ‘Corn meal goes,” said Bob, promptly, throwing open the trunks and beginning to extract our equipments for Mr. Jimmerson’s inspection. ‘‘ Each of us have one pair of woolen blankets, one of rubber, a pair of rubber boots, short, another pair with tops, rub- ber coats and hats, two hunting Jackets, an overcoat, gloves, tin cup, a rifle and two gsuns—Joe has an extra rifle—six hundred pounds of ammunition, assorted, a set of re- loading tools, fifty pounds of shot, assorted, and ten of powder and a chance to replen- ish it. ‘Besides this we have two frying pans and a coffee pot, hermetic match cases, comicbooks.co mn