as much as the average g

Waded back to the island with a full load of provisions and cooking
utensils, and in three minutes he was squinting against the smoke of a
camp-fire while he poured water from a canteen into his blackened coffee
pot. "Coffee! Jack, dear, can you believe your nose!" chirped the woman
presently behind Casey. "Junior, darling, just smell the bacon! Isn't he
a nice gentleman? Go give him a kiss like a little man." Casey didn't
want any kiss--at least from Junior. Junior was six years old, and his
face was dirty and his eyes were old, old eyes, but brown like his
father's. He had the pinched, hungry look which Casey had seen only
amongst starving Indians, and after he had kissed Casey perfunctorily he
snatched the piece of raw bacon which Casey had just sliced off, and
tore at it with his teeth like a hungry pup. Casey affected not to
notice, and busied himself with the fire while the woman reproved Junior
half-heartedly in an undertone, and laughed stagily and remarked upon
the number of hours since they had breakfasted. Casey tried not to watch
them eat, but in spite of himself he thought of a prospector whom he had
rescued last summer after a five-day fast. These people ate more than
the prospector had eaten, and their eyes followed greedily every
mouthful which Casey took, as if they grudged him the food. Wherefore
Casey did not take as many mouthfuls as he would have liked. "This
desert air certainly does put an edge on one's appetite," the woman
smiled, while she blew across her fourth cup of coffee to cool it, and
between breaths bit into a huge bacon sandwich, which Casey could not
help knowing was her third. "Jack, dear, isn't this coffee delicious!"
"Mah-mal Do we have to p-pay that there g-godsend? C-can you p-pay for
more b-bacon for me, mah-ma?" Junior licked his fingers and twitched a
fold of his mother's soiled skirt. "Sure, give him more bacon! All he
wants. I'll fry

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