"Out on the plains, where the air is so fresh and so full of life I was always hungry, and I suppose I brought my appetite here with me.

Dick, I've opened a can of cove oysters, and that's a great deal for a fellow on horseback to do.

Here, take your share, and they'll help out that dry bread you're munching." Dick accepted with thanks.

He learned that he, too, could eat with a good appetite while bullets were knocking up dust only twenty yards away.

Meanwhile there was a steady flash of firing from every wood and cornfield behind them.
As he ate he watched and he saw an amazing panorama.