The dangers, excitement, and suspense of the hours drove away the thought of food.

Young as was Linna, she had already learned not to ask for it when either of her parents chose not to offer it to her.

Doubtless she was hungry, but if so, no one else knew it.

Alice had been given bread when at Forty Fort, and she now suggested that some more would not come amiss.
"We all need it," said Ben; "why not take our last meal in our old home?
You have no objection Omas ?" "Eat here," was his reply.
The guns were leaned against the walls, the blankets put aside and all gathered round the board.

The Delaware had done the same before when visiting the family, and acquired the civilized form of eating, while Linna picked it up during the brief time spent with her friends.
The meal lasted but a few minutes, when they once more gathered up their luggage, as it may be called, left the house, and with Omas in the lead, struck into the mountains on the long tramp to the Delaware.
The sun went down while they were picking their way through the rough section.