The fire flared, the hot stones cracked and burst. We put our hot blankets around us and sprawled on them whilst the poet cooked the ham and the beans, and I tended the coffee-pot or stripped the last wisps of grease-paper from the butter.

We slept in our cradles and wakened in the morning to see the beavers jumping among the fallen timber and diving in the river.

A prairie resident,

A dweller in a tent,

A White House resident,

A good man for President!

To White House from white tent.

O excellent precedent!

A precedent for a President.