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warm numbed fingers while the prepar- 

 ations for breakfast were going for- 

 ward. Simple but satisfying meal! 

 Porridge, with a little grated maple 

 sugar to take the place of cream, a half 

 ration of bacon and almost the last of 

 our bread. Tea of course there was, for 

 to us in the woods the humblest fare 

 with tea is a repas, while an ample pro- 

 vision of food ungraced by tea is no 

 more than a Vouchee. With canoes, 

 tents, blankets, rifles and other impedi- 

 menta to carry over long portages 

 through a difficult country, it had been 

 necessary to come in light ; which means 

 that the dunnage bags contained only 

 bread, flour, oatmeal, pork, bacon, tea 

 and sugar, salt and pepper. Given a 

 sufficiency of these no one need com- 

 plain of his fare, but in making a close 

 calculation of quantities we had counted 

 upon the addition of game and fish, and 

 after a week of wandering nothing had 

 fallen to our rifles, even fish had been 

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