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A mostrar mensagens com a etiqueta *Autor - Mark Twain
They came back to camp wonderfully refreshed, glad-hearted and ravenous; and they soon had the camp-fire blazing up again. Huck found a spring of clear cold water close by, and the boys made cups of broad oak or hickory leaves, and felt that water, sweetened with such a wild-wood charm as that, would be a good enough substitute for coffee. While Joe was slicing bacon for breakfast, Tom and Huck asked him to hold on a minute; they stepped to a promising nook in the river bank and threw in their lines; almost immediatly they had reward. Joe had not had time to get impatient before they were back again with some handsome bass, a couple os sun-perch and a small catfish – provisions enough for quite a family. They fried the fish with the bacon and were astonished; for no fish have ever seemed so delicious before. They did not know that the quicker a fresh water fish is on the fire after he is caught the better he is; and they reflected little upon what a sauce open air sleeping, open air …