Camp-fire musings : life and good times in the woods . g, wild in the woods. To say nothing of thesubstantials, the flour, oat and corn meal, the ambro-sial hams and bacon, spring chickens all ready for thegriddle, a barrel of sugar, pies, cakes baked withraisins and things in them, a layout all ready for afamily of sixteen, for dinner, and every one hungry asElijah before the ravens came, kerosene, candles,matches—there were things of finer mould and moreexquisite spirit. There were jams, jellies, sardines,cheese, crackers, both plain and ornamental, pops,snaps, biscuit, canned goods of all s
Camp-fire musings : life and good times in the woods . g, wild in the woods. To say nothing of thesubstantials, the flour, oat and corn meal, the ambro-sial hams and bacon, spring chickens all ready for thegriddle, a barrel of sugar, pies, cakes baked withraisins and things in them, a layout all ready for afamily of sixteen, for dinner, and every one hungry asElijah before the ravens came, kerosene, candles,matches—there were things of finer mould and moreexquisite spirit. There were jams, jellies, sardines,cheese, crackers, both plain and ornamental, pops,snaps, biscuit, canned goods of all sorts, and otherthings which nobody but a woman can year to year we have kept the bills, and touchedthem up, elongating the shorts and foreshortening thelongs, till every thing starts in even and runs out evenunder the string, on the homestretch. King Solo-mon in all his glory, and with all his women to makesuggestions (I do wonder if they all took a hand in 22 2 (Eamp-^ice IRustngs getting his breakfast) never had a store-room so sub-. OH PAPA, PAPA, THE KITCHEN IS ON FIRE ! stantial and splendid. (My own opinion is tliat thosewomen of his had nothing but boiled dinners.) ^tre i 223 Everybody about the camp, excepting little Dot,knew, in a flash of thought, the whole circumference
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