Then warmed the old Dutch oven up a while,

And after greasing with a bacon rind,

The biscuit dough was to its depths consigned.

Soon from within the oven, partly hid

By embers piled upon the cumbrous lid,

The baking powder biscuits nestling there

With wholesome exhalations charged the air.

A pot of beans suspended by a wire

Swung like a pendulum above the fire,

And answered every flame's combustive kiss