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Bud Gregory puffed expansively. They were seated before that unspeakable shanty Bud Gregory had pre-empted and which was now his home. They had dined on bracken-greens and grouse -- out of season -- and sea-trout with cornbread and bacon-drippings and wild fennel and a monstrous brew which Bud Gregory fondly considered to be coffee.
Now they looked out over an inlet of Puget Sound, with sunset colorings making the sky to westward a glory of rose and gold.