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In his anxiety to find the canteen, he had exhausted his strength in fighting the storm, and had no power left to breathe in such a stifling atmosphere. He might easily have been choked if Yarloo had not found him. The native was desert born and bred, and knew how to act in every contingency that could possibly occur in the bush.
He folded it into a manner of bandage and soused water from the other canteen upon the middle of it. This crude arrangement he bound over the youth's head, tying the ends in a queer knot at the back of the neck. "There," he said, moving off and surveying his deed, "yeh look like th' devil, but I bet yeh feel better." The youth contemplated his friend with grateful eyes.
He tilted his head afar back and held the canteen long to his lips. The cool mixture went caressingly down his blistered throat. Having finished, he sighed with comfortable delight. The loud young soldier watched his comrade with an air of satisfaction. He later produced an extensive handkerchief from his pocket.
By the way, have you any cold coffee in your canteen? "'O, yes, I have learned to keep that on hand. Here, help yourself. "The Colonel took a good drink, and turned to Peter and said: "'What is the matter with that coffee? "'Nothing; it is only laced a little. "'Laced? What is that? "'Why, I put a little brandy in it, that's all. "'That's all, is it? Well! that is something I have learned.
Before Milton had established himself in his blankets, Harden rose and went to a canteen for a drink of water. On his return he stumbled over Forrester's feet. Instantly Forrester sat erect. "What're you doing, you clumsy dub foot?" he shouted. "Oh, dry up, Forr; I didn't mean to hurt you, you great boob!" "We'll settle this right now!"
By his devotion to duty, self-sacrifice, and contempt of danger, he won the confidence of the men wherever he was. He chiefly worked alone and operated a canteen usually in a dugout at the front. On one occasion a soldier was badly wounded at the door of a hut, by an exploding gas-shell.
Greedily he set his teeth into it; and even as he did so it disappeared, and he awoke, gasping and choking under the broiling blackness. "I'll have to take that canteen down to the stream and fill it," he muttered, rising unsteadily and proceeding toward the bank. To his surprise he found that rain had fallen. He was treading in ooze, which rose higher and higher until it clogged his footsteps.
The disposition to start was apparent, and the preparations were promptly begun. "To roll up the old blanket and oil-cloth, gather up the haversack, canteen, axe, perhaps, and a few trifles, in time of peace of no value, eat the fragments that remained, and light a pipe, was the work of a few moments.
Stopping no longer to wonder who had dropped the bundle, the Curlytops took a drink from the canteen. They had not been used to drinking out of a bottle since they were babies, and some of the water ran down their necks. But they did not mind this. And, even though the water was rather warm, they felt much better after having had a drink. "I wish we could give the ponies some," said Janet.
"That's all right," returned Pollock resentfully, "but I bet there's some down in that hollow; and I'm going to see!" "I wouldn't climb down there for a million drinks," said Bob; "I'll sit down and wait for you." Pollock climbed down, found his water, drank. He filled the canteen and staggered back up the steep climb. "Here you be," said he. Bob seized the canteen and drank deep.
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