EARLY DAY STORIES. 193 



from home — bread, biscuits, butter, baked beans, flour and 

 baking powder for flapjacks, a jug of home-made sorghum, 

 sah and pepper for the fresh venison, doughnuts to be eaten 

 with the coffee, appetites that never failed us, weather the 

 best ever afforded by our splendid Nebraska climate, neither 

 too warm nor too cold — just sharp enough to make vigorous 

 exercise a pleasure, and lastly Dan's pipe and tobacco, for 

 Dan was a good smoker. 



It makes me homesick. Ring down the curtain! 



