In hot weather you eat more beans and less bacon, and when the weather is cold your diet is easily arranged in the reverse order.
The boats were speedily launched upon the swift current at the bridge and steered down to a little cove on the left, a few hundred yards below, where they were hauled out on a beach to give them the finishing touches of preparation, like attaching canvas covers to the cabins, and so forth.

Nearby, amongst the willows, we established our first camp--a place of real luxury, for Mr.Field, who had an outfitting house here, lent us a table and two benches.

Andy set up some crotches and a cross-bar, to hang his kettles on, and with a cast-iron bake oven--one of the kind like a flat, iron pot, in which, after it is stood upon a bed of hot coals, the bread is placed, and then the cast-iron cover is put on, and laden with hot coals--began his experiments in cookery, for it was a new art to him.

In the beginning he was rather too liberal with his salaratus, but the product gave us the pleasant delusion of having reached a land of gold nuggets.

Andy soon improved, and we learned to appreciate his rare skill to such an extent that the moment he took his old hat and with it lifted the coffee-pot off the fire, and then placed beside it the bread and bacon with the pleasing remark: "Well, now, go fur it, boys!" we lost not a moment in accepting the invitation.