Beadle's Dime Novels No. 96: Little Moccasin — page 53: what you’re looking at

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SUPPER. BD And now they all set to work preparing fora “ big supper,” some broiling the bear-steak and moose-meat on beds of live coals—others roasting it in strips wound about a stick before a scorching blaze—others stripping the feathers by handfuls from the birds, and others making tea, each for himself, in a tin dipper, to be sweetened with molasses—here of dried. sage, or balm, and there of the wild cherry or foxberry leaves, or young cedar, and others again dishing up the apple-sauce, and cold baked beans, and honest rye-and-Indian—and all manifesting a readiness and power of adaptation quite aston- ishing, and a capacity which, reduced to cubic feet and inches, were “enough to take away your breath—as it did theirs baltire they got through. ° Hot suppers are somewhat dangerous for the dwellers in ceiled houses; but in. the deep of the wilderness, in mid-win- ter, after a wiiole day’s tramp, for men with the appetite and the teeth of hungry wolves, there is no danger of nightmares or apoplexies, though they should eat live bears—working away at one end, while the other was ie i a young devil stuffed with pisebsnesec pee CHAPTER VY. FOLLOWING THE TRAIL, Caprain Bos Gack was not a man to be easily turned out of his way, or discouraged. Whatever he undertook he never abandoned till he had accomplished his purpose in some way, or satisfied himself that he had nothing to hope. Like General Grant before Vicksburg, though he might change his plan of operations, he never lost sight of the object he had in view at the beginning. A quiet, cool-headed, fearless man, little given to talk or bluster, he had that in his clear blue eye and closely-shut mouth, which made others willing to follow him through hardship, trial and suffering, sure that he would come out right in the long run, He was now on the alert, and serious and silent, so that comicbooks.conn