osts still rule4 the night; that those massive paws could ell an ox, 
th*e, Jam *her off boese like& guillotine. 
B this time the Delta has probably been made safe for osw, ad 
forever du1 for &dventuxing hunters. Yreebss from fear has arrived, bat

a glory Me departed from the gross lagom. 
h e flpling smelled the upper smoke of mitsar, he should have 
olborate, fo? ns other poest has sun, or smelled, this green earths 
firewoeod. Wost psoet. must have subsisted on anthracite. 
On the Delta one Mrs only one, the ultimate in fragrant ruels 
mesquite. Brittle with a hudred frosts and floods, baked b a thous&ed

os, the garled lperishable bones of these ancient trees lie m4ad-to- 
head at every camp, rea4 to slant blue smoke across the twilight, sing 
a song of teapots, bakea loaf, brown a kettle of quail, an warm the 
shis of man and boast. 1hen you have ladled a shovelful of mesquite cosal

uner the Dach oven, take care not to sit down in that spot before beltime,

lest you rise with a yelp that esares the quail roosting overhea. 
Msquite oale have seven lives. 
We had cooked with whiteoak soale Is the oonbelt, we had OMwAed 
our pots with pins in the north woods, we had browned venison ribs ever 
Ari ona uniper, Mt we hs4 not seen perfection until we roasted a yo 
goose with Delta mesquite. 
Those geese deserved the best of besins, for they had bested us tor 
a week. Iery moring we watched the *eaWilng pb1li head inland from 
the Glf, shortly to return, replete and silent. *at rare provender In