[The Friendly Road by Ray Stannard Baker]@TWC D-Link bookThe Friendly Road CHAPTER VII 15/17
Upon this, I considered using some pages from my notebook, but another alternative suggested itself: "Why not Montaigne ?" With that I groped for the familiar volume, and with a curious sensation of satisfaction I tore out a handful of pages from the back. "Better Montaigne than Grayson," I said, with a chuckle.
It was amazing how Montaigne sparkled and crackled when he was well lighted. "There goes a bundle of quotations from Vergil," I said, "and there's his observations on the eating of fish.
There are more uses than one for the classics." So I ripped out a good part of another chapter, and thus, by coaxing, got my fire to going.
It was not difficult after that to find enough fuel to make it blaze up warmly. I opened my bag and took out the remnants of the luncheon which Mrs. Clark had given me that morning; and I was surprised and delighted to find, among the other things, a small bottle of coffee.
This suggested all sorts of pleasing possibilities and, the spirit of invention being now awakened, I got out my tin cup, split a sapling stick so I could fit it into the handle, and set the cup, full of coffee, on the coals at the edge of the fire.
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