"What you'd like to eat is something hearty, I figure." "What you got ?" said Bull.
"Well, Mrs.Jarney come in this morning with a dozen fresh eggs.

Got some prime bacon, too, and some jerky and--" "That dozen eggs," said Bull thoughtfully, "will start me, and then a platter of bacon, and you might mix up a bowl of flapjacks.

You ain't got a quart or so of canned milk, partner ?" The proprietor could only nod, for he dared not trust his voice.
Fleeing to the kitchen he repeated the prodigious order to his wife.
Then he circled by a back way and communicated the tidings to the "boys" around the stove.
"A couple of dozen eggs, he says to me, and a few pounds of beef and three or four quarts of milk and a bowl of flapjacks and a platter of bacon," was the way the second version of the historic order for food came to the idlers.
Half a dozen of the men risked the cold and the wind to steal around to the side of the house and peer through the window at the huge, bunched figure that sat on the floor.

They found him with his chin dropped upon the burly fist and a frown on his forehead, for Bull was thinking.
He would have been glad to have found Pete Reeve in Johnstown and have the matter over with.

But, after all, it was beginning to occur to him that it might not be wise to kill the man in the presence of other people.