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To prevent waste or embezzlement is the only inducement to allowancing of them at all for if, instead of a peck they could eat a bushel of meal a week fairly, and required it, I would not withhold or begrudge it them."
Things went on pretty smoothly for the first month or so, that is, while the money for my apprenticeship lasted; but after that he became rather difficult to please, and besides took to allowancing me in food, which was a much more serious matter both to my mind and palate.
To prevent waste or embezzlement is the only inducement to allowancing them at all for if, instead of a peck they could eat a bushel of meal a week fairly, and required it, I would not withold or begrudge it them." There is good reason to believe that Washington was respected and even beloved by many of his "People."
The abri would not turn a direct explosion of a shell; but it would shield one against a glancing blow and against the shrapnel which sprays itself out from the point where the shell hits like a molten iron fountain. After the ninth bomb had come over we left the abri. The Germans had been allowancing Recicourt to nine a day. But that day they gave us three more prunes for dessert.
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