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Left on Labrador

CHAPTER XII
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It will evaporate fast there, and leave its salt on the bottom of the hollow.

We can move the fire along a little nearer to make the rocks hotter.

I'm not sure that we could not make the water boil in there." The place was brushed, and a dozen bumperfuls turned into the hollow, where it soon began to steam.
"That'll do it!" exclaimed Kit.

"Never mind: we shall have salt by to-morrow!" After eating the eggs, one of the geese, which Donovan and Raed had dressed, was cut up raw, and fried on the spider.

We had sharpened appetites; and, had the morsels been flavored with salt, it would not have tasted bad.


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