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"Glenn, you rave!" ejaculated Carley, not knohether to laugh or be

grave "You were talking of hus that were the foundation of the great

nation of Americans I meant work and children"

Carley could only stare at him The look he flashed at her, the sudden

intensity and passion of his ringing words, were as if he gave her a

gliun in fun, but he

had finished otherwise She felt that she really did not know this

ly hot and cold,

passed over her Then it relieved her to see that he had returned to his

task

He an

a thorough kneading When the consistency of the mixture appeared to

satisfy him he took a handful of it, rolled it into a ball, patted and

flattened it into a biscuit, and dropped it into the oven he had set

aside on the hot coals Swiftly he shaped eight or ten other biscuits

and dropped them as the first Then he put the heavy iron lid on the

pot, and with a rude shovel, improvised from a flattened tin can, he

shoveled red coals out of the fire, and covered the lid with the these aside in a pan

A s

part of the fire Then he brought into use a huge, heavy knife, a

implement it appeared to Carley, hich he cut