I broke the loaf of bread in half and tossed her part. She was starved and quickly ate the whole thing. I hadn’t anything to eat recently and also w...s glad to get food in my stomach. I took a can of beans, found a sharp knife and cut the top out. A tin cup on the shelf served as a second container and I divided the beans in half. Again, we both polished them off. The stove was an old pot-belly and could be used for cooking and warmth. I hoped there was some wood outside. The trousers she wore. A nurse suctioned out the baby and cleaned her up swiftly. She then wrapped Shannon, our little bundle of joy, in a receiving blanket and laid her in Grace's arms. The expression on Grace's face was priceless and the girl's big sister was busily snapping away with her camera. I prevailed upon one of the nurses to take a couple of shots of Kim, Grace and me adoring our newest family member.As Grace was being wheeled out of the delivery room headed for post-partum I heard some familiar voices. I. " I explainedAs I was talking Shannon had bent over and was adjusting her strap on her shoe giving me he same view as earlier, she looked up at me and smiled a little smile that said I know where you are looking, I could make out both of her nipples, since she had stopped breast feeding she had stopped wearing a bra every day claiming the bra was irritating her, so on the days she didn't wear a bra she would wear a tight blazer that acted like a bra. She wasn't wearing the blazer now."Oh I see. I felt frightened and foolish, about fifty-fifty, and damn near pissed myself.I set my rifle down and stepped out to meet him, angry at myself and with my big blade in my hand, wishing I had time to fix it to a musket. He yelled something more that had a "damn" in it and slowed down but kept coming, jabbing out. His reach was four feet better than mine, and I never took my eyes away from the tip of his spike.The mustached Hessian lunged, and I blocked his thrust with my left arm, getting my.