WASHINGTON.
(calling in answer).
Here, Carey, here. (To the others.) That's he, now. Well, Carey, what luck?
CAREY
(entering from background).
Any luck but pot luck. Missed both times. No grouse for us. I almost wish I'd raided some frontiersman's cabin.
[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.