Our young hunters had eaten bear-paws before; and, of coarse, reserved these delicate morsels to themselves.
As soon as breakfast was finished, and their animals had been led to the water, the brothers met together in a "council of three." It was necessary to take into consideration how they should now act.

Their circumstances were very much altered.

The whole of their provisions of dried meat, flour, and coffee, had been dropped by Jeanette in her flight, and, of course, eaten up or destroyed by the javalies.
Henceforth they would have to depend entirely on their guns to supply them.

The loss of their tent did not vex them, as in the fine summer weather, which they then had, they thought nothing of sleeping in the open air.

But to be deprived of their coffee, that much-prized luxury of the prairie traveller, was a great chagrin.