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Pioneers of the Old Southwest

CHAPTER II
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The door was made thick and heavy to withstand the Indian's rush.

And the windowpanes?
They were of paper treated with hog's fat or bear's grease.
When the sun stood overhead, the women would give the welcome call of "Dinner!" Their morning had not been less busy than the men's.

They had baked corn cakes on hot stones, roasted bear or pork, or broiled venison steaks; and--above all and first of all--they had concocted the great "stew pie" without which a raising could hardly take place.

This was a disputatious mixture of deer, hog, and bear--animals which, in life, would surely have companioned each other as ill! It was made in sufficient quantity to last over for supper when the day's labor was done.

At supper the men took their ease on the ground, but with their rifles always in reach.


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