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repeated Whopper . `` We all made home runs ! '' And at this reference to baseball all of the boys laughed . Taking the game to the rowboat , they resumed their journey , and by noon reached the watercourse connecting the two lakes . Here they stopped at a spot well known to them and built a camp fire , and here they roasted all of the game , fearing it might not keep in such hot weather . `` I 'm going to try baking 'em in mud , '' said Giant , who had learned the trick from Jed Sanborn . Leaving the feathers on the grouse the lad plastered each bird thickly with some clayey mud , and then placed them in the fire to roast , or bake , as he called it .