"No, I don't want it," said the latter. "But it isn't worth quarreling over. We can fry some more."
"I guess we'll have to if Paul is going to develop that kind of an appetite," remarked Innis. "Three eggs, twice on the steak, and no end of bacon----"
"Did not what?" asked Innis, with a smile.
"Did not have three eggs. It was only two, and----"
"Well, this'll be three," retorted Innis.
"Oh, well, then I'll split it with you," and Paul cut the egg in half, thus settling the dispute.
"Well, there's one consolation in eating this way," remarked Dick, as the auto-meal came to an end. "We don't have many dishes to wash," and he tossed from the window of the car the wooden plates from which they had dined.
"That's right," agreed Paul. "Washing dishes is the worst part of camp life. Some day I'm going to invent a set of dishes that wash themselves."
"These are just as good," said Dick. Though there was in the auto a small set of porcelain dishes, the boys had decided that, except for food that actually needed other styles, they would use the wooden plates, that could be thrown away after each meal. They carried a supply of these, as well as paper napkins, and more could be bought whenever needed.
Of course there were pans and other utensils for the stove, and these were cleaned after being used, and stowed away in the proper compartments.
"Well, I guess we're all ready to start again," announced Dick, as they got out and walked about a bit, pausing to get a drink at a roadside spring.
"I'll take a look at our map and see," went on the young millionaire. "I think we can make Hosford by evening, and stay there over night. There's no use journeying after dark until we have to."
"That's right; not until we find we have to put on speed to file that paper in time," added Paul.
"But is there a hotel in Hosford?" inquired Innis.
"We'll not bother with a hotel," suggested Dick. "As long as we have the bunks in our auto we might as well use them. We'll just pull up at some quiet place, off the road, get our supper, and turn in. We're independent of hotels, unless we want to go to one now and again to have more room to stretch. That's why I got this kind of a car."
"Sure enough!" exclaimed Innis. "We'll bunk here then."