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"Did you bring plenty of olives?" "And I do hope we didn't forget the cheese crackers!" "Oh, everything is here more than we'll eat, I think, by the weight of the baskets." "Where did I put oh, here they are!" This last, with a sigh of relief, as she found her package of candy, came from Grace. Mollie, Amy and Betty had, in turn, been heard from in the aforequoted remarks.
What she really said was piteously: "How good it smells!" "Doesn't it!" said the red-haired person, sniffing. "Beef capsules. I've made thirty cups of it so far since one o'clock the more they have the more they want. I say, be a good girl and run up to the kitchen for some more crackers while I carry food to the convalescent typhoid. He's murderous!"
Coming very near us at 4 P.M. the long roll beat and without packing up and hardly having time to put on our equipments, we double-quicked up the mountain and took position in ambush, where we staid till the morning of the 11th, when we returned to the old camp. For several days rations had been very scarce, hard crackers selling as high as twenty-five cents each.
"Oh! why did you go for a soldier?" sang our little news-boy, tauntingly, as he capered behind a big burly Dutchman in the rear rank, who had encountered all manner of misfortune that morning, missing his coffee and what is a man worth on a day's march without coffee because it was too hot to drink, when the bugle sounded the call to fall in, his meat raw, not even the smell of fire about it, and his crackers half roasted; his clothes, too, half on, belts twisted, knapsack badly made up.
No one could explain how the catastrophe occurred, further than that Mr O'Gallagher had collected all the squibs and crackers from the boys, and that they had exploded somehow or another most people said that it served him right. My grandmother shook her head and said, "Yes, yes, gunpowder will go off, but " and she looked at me "it requires a match to be put to it."
Soda crackers put in the stove to get hot and brown, and the oysters poured over them, are very nice. From MRS. MIRA B. F. LADD, of New Hampshire, Lady Manager. Parboil one pint of oysters in their own liquor until they are plump. Drain thoroughly and have your cracker crumbs and white sauce ready.
He had the proper touch, could catch the note appropriate for votes of thanks. He knew his talent, and that Christmas Day he meant to do his best. An orderly entered the canteen, looked round it, caught sight of the Major. He pushed his way through a crowd of laughing men who munched cake, smoked furiously, and decked each others' heads with paper caps from crackers.
We'll either conquer the dinner, or it will conquer us. You know how it is, Jim, because that's the kind of dinner you had to-day. It was an Athletic Feat not the ordinary kind of city dinner where you save up carefully during seven courses, and finish strong on the water crackers and cheese, but a real Christmas gorge.
He had got up a plate of crackers and two bottles of tivoli, and was opening the first. He offered the beaded goblet to Kinney. "Thank you," said Kinney. "Not any. I never do." Bartley quaffed half of it in tolerant content. "I always do. Find it takes my nerves down at the end of a hard week's work. Well, now, tell me some thing about yourself. What are you going to do in Illinois?"
But the foe assailed him where least expected. In a little hole right under the very spot on which he sat lay one of the zigzag crackers. Its first crack caused the chief, despite his power of will and early training, to bound up as if an electric battery had discharged him. The second crack sent the eccentric thing into his face. Its third vagary brought it down about his knees.
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