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The Friendly Road

CHAPTER VII
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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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