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"Crickets!" exclaimed Pepper, "that was going some."
"Suppose you let me show you how to cook without a stove. Jack,
see if you can't find some dry leaves and small twigs. Rand, you
can get some bigger pieces, plenty of them. That's the kind. And,
Pepper, you and Don bring up a lot of that clay from down there by
the water. That's the stuff. Now wrap your fish up in a coat of
clay. Never mind the scales. Coat them all over and pile them up
here as fast as you get them ready. If we only had some flour we'd
have a dinner in the real scout style."
"I don't see how you are going to cook them in that clay," put in
Jack.
"We are going to bake them," replied the colonel. "Build a good,
hot fire on top of them."
"Like they do with a clam bake?" inquired Rand.
"That's the idea," said the colonel, who, while talking, had been
packing the fish in two layers on a flat rock. "Now put your leaves
on--not too many--lay on your pieces, Rand, pile them up so as to
leave a draught. That's it; now, Jack, touch it off."
Jack struck a match which flickered for a minute and went out.
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