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His face clouded for aan unpleasant topic: "This water's boiling like mad Now iscoffee I want two jugs, or this jug and the

tin will do The coffee? Thanks I'et you to hold

the tin This is the native method: You make it in the tin--so; then,

after a rounds--into

the jug, then back, and then back again, and lo! you have café à la

Français, or Cairo, or Claphaood," she admitted, when it had cooled sufficiently for her

to taste it "And that is how you made it on the battlefield?"

"Scarcely," he said "There was no jug, only an empty meat can; and the

water--well, the water was almost as thick, with mud, before the coffee

was put in as afterward, and the men would scarcely have had patience

to wait for the patent process Poor beggars! Some of them had not had a

drop past their lips for twenty-four hours--and been fighting, too"

Nell listened, with her grave gray eyes fixed on his face