[Sits at fire.

WASHINGTON.
"Get what you can get honestly." (Passes him the bacon.) "Use what you
get frugally." That was an old saying I learned from my copybook, and
even in the wilderness it seems to hold true.

RICHARD GENN
(as they sit about fire, eating).
What's to be done when this meal is finished?

GEORGE WASHINGTON.
Naught that I know of. I can do no more till I receive further orders
from Colonel Fairfax.

TALBOT.
Well, then, we've a half-holiday. 'Tis the first idle time we've had in
three weeks. Up before dawn, and to bed before star-rise! I tell you it
makes the hours spin fast. How shall we pass our leisure?

CAREY.
I'm going back for those grouse.

[Rises.

TALBOT.
I've seen the bronze of a wild turkey's wing.

[Rises.