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Whether the date of the writing be a little earlier or a little later, some fifty years or so, it does not seem to make much difference as to the general intent and purport of it. Here is a scholar, for instance, whose main idea of life on this planet it appears to be, to collect the philosophy, and protect the posthumous fame of the Lord Bacon.
We went out almost every evening, named all the bays, points, and islands, caught lots of excellent pike with a trolling line, which relieved the monotony of bacon and ham for breakfast, or went to the net spread at the mouth of a little river or creek emptying into Lake Deception, and brought home great jack-fish weighing from two to six pounds.
But are they are any perfect ideals? The one thing I did, and do, and will believe, is the one which they do not fulfil that man is meant to be the conqueror of the earth, matter, nature, decay, death itself, and to conquer them, as Bacon says, by obeying them.
There was not enough of him alive to feel that he had been imposed upon. For breakfast they had big soda biscuits and fried bacon floating in its own grease. There was enough of it left for the midday lunch. This was put into a tin pail with a tight fitting top.
"And you certainly can have bully good times in the Camp Fire," said Dolly, enthusiastically. "I've never enjoyed myself half so much as I have since I've belonged. Why, we have bacon bats, and picnics, and all sorts of things that are the best fun you ever dreamed of, Marcia.
"Must be going off their heads," he decided, and shook his own doubtfully. "It can't be a merry-makin' either; for, when you come to think of it, folks don't feast off such things as streaky bacon." "Not off this sort, any'ow," airily agreed the steward, who had been examining a piece on the counter.
"Oh, some of the fishermen's boys over at the town." "Then it didn't ought to be allowed. You are in a state!" "Yes; I know without your telling me. What's under that cover?" "Roast chicken and bacon, my dear." "Oh, I couldn't touch it, Jane!" "Now, don't say that, my dear. People must eat and drink even if they are in trouble; because if they don't they're ill.
Without delay he explained the exchange of clothes, and had no difficulty in persuading Rebecca that it was Francis Bacon whom she had pursued by mistake. "Poor young man!" Rebecca exclaimed, in a low voice of contrition. "Why, he must hev took me fer a lunatic!" Then she suddenly recollected her young attendants, and turned so as to bring them on one hand and Droop on the other.
When do we go to work on that?" Garton chuckled. "You're going to be as bad as I am, Conniston! Can't even stop to look at a pretty girl? The Lord knows they're scarce enough out here, too. Yes, Dam Number One is the important one of the lot. It will be the biggest, the hardest, and most expensive to build, and it will control the water-supply which is going to save our bacon."
Anon she began to fry the bacon, giving each individual slice its due amount of care and attention; but, her eyes chancing to meet mine, the song died upon her lip, her lashes flickered and fell, while up from throat to brow there crept a slow, hot wave of crimson. And in that moment I turned away and strode down to the brook.
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