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Wild Bill’s Last Trail

CHAPTER X
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"Next day we will be on buffalo ground, and we'll have some hump ribs to roast." Gathering a few dry, light sticks, he soon had a hot and almost smokeless fire ablaze.

On the coals of this he set his coffee-pot, broiled some meat, and while Mr.Pond looked on in surprise, he quickly had a nice breakfast of antelope steak, coffee, and a few hard biscuit which were in the pack.
While Pond took hold and ate heartily, praising the food by his actions much as his words, the Texan ate lightly, yet all that he wanted--not touching the bread, but using meat entirely.
"There'll be the more left for you," said he, when Pond noticed that he ate no bread.

"I never care for anything but meat on the plains.

It gives bone and muscle, and that is what we need here.

The more simple the food, the better the health.


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