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The Guns of Bull Run

CHAPTER X
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Fetch 'em." Harry abandoned his skillet for a moment, and brought the plates.
Ike, the coffee now being about ready, produced three tin cups, and with these simple preparations they began their supper.

The flames went down and the fire became a great bed of coals, glowing in the darkness, and making a circle of light, the edges of which touched the boat.
Harry found that Jarvis was telling the truth.

The long work and the cool night air, without a roof above him, gave him a hunger, the like of which he had not known for a long time.

He ate cake after cake of the corn bread and piece after piece of the meat.

Jarvis and Ike kept him full company.
"Didn't I tell you it was fine ?" said Jarvis, stretching his long length and sighing with content.


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