"M-m-m-m!" gloated The 0skaloosa Kid. "I wish Ihad bo--asked for more. My! but I never smelled any-thing so good as that in all my life. Are you going toboil only three eggs? I could eat a dozen."

"The can'll only hold three at a time," explainedBridge. "We'll have some more boiling while we areeating these." He borrowed his knife from the girl, whomwas slicing and buttering bread with it, and turned thebacon swiftly and deftly with the point, then he glancedat his watch. "The three minutes are up," he announcedand, with a couple of tiny, flat sticks saved for the pur-pose from the kindling wood, withdrew the eggs oneat a time from the can.

"But we have no cups!' exclaimed The 0skaloosa Kid,in sudden despair.

Bridge laughed. "Knock an end off your egg and theshell will answer in place of a cup. Got a knife?"