Excerpt: ... When Owen has his first taste of this favorite canoeist's dish his eyes told of the keenest enjoyment. Plain fare had been his portion most of his life, and it was a question of quantity more than quality with his folks; appetite made up 121 for a lack of delicacies, and doubtless with that as a background even common corn pone may assume the properties of a Delmonico planked steak. Eli had seemed to be as hungry as usual when they landed; but having finished his task of erecting the tent he had picked up ...
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Excerpt: ... When Owen has his first taste of this favorite canoeist's dish his eyes told of the keenest enjoyment. Plain fare had been his portion most of his life, and it was a question of quantity more than quality with his folks; appetite made up 121 for a lack of delicacies, and doubtless with that as a background even common corn pone may assume the properties of a Delmonico planked steak. Eli had seemed to be as hungry as usual when they landed; but having finished his task of erecting the tent he had picked up Cuthbert's splendid repeating Marlin and said something about taking a little stroll, with a hope that perchance he might sight game worthy of a shot. Cuthbert had made no remark, for he knew that it was a weakness on the part of his comrade to get off now and then with that gun, just for the sake of handling it, and feeling for a short period that he owned the whole world. It afforded the Virginia lad great pleasure to know that he had it in his power to bring joy to honest Eli's heart; and while he valued the gun, even its loss would not have caused a single cloud to cross his brow. He was gifted with a splendid nature, and never so happy as when conferring pleasure upon some one else. By the time supper was all ready Cuthbert remembered that the boy from Michigan had not yet turned up. 122 "Do you remember having heard a shot some time back?" he asked Owen. "Yes, but it was pretty far away, further than Eli could have gone, I think; though now that you speak of it the report did come from up the wind, and that was the direction he took on starting out. Are you anxious about him?" replied the other, turning around from the job that had been occupying his attention, and which was connected with placing hemlock browse under the blanket he meant to use when the time to lie down arrived, as well as alongside the sleeping bags of his two companions. "Why, no, I don't think there's any reason for that. Eli had been accustomed to roaming the woods all...
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