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The waiter, overhearing shreds of their discourse, made a private notation to the effect that these were Men of Large Affairs. Then they embarked upon some salty crackers, enlivened with Camembert cheese and green-gage jam. By this time they were touching upon religion, from which they moved lightly to the poems of Louise Imogen Guiney. It is all quite distinct as one looks back upon it.
Nor, it seems, do they always make the best of things when they get there. Thus the Sister mentioned that the education which the girls receive in the schools causes them to desire a more exalted lot in life than that of a servant. So they try to find places in shops, or jam factories, etc.
Tea finds jam on the menu on your clothes too, because of a struggle with someone over disputed possession of a pot that did not rightly belong to either. A 1 lb. jar is shared among six when it is not sixteen. Quantity and quality differ frequently. Less said.... Hendecourt proved a posh camp; memories of it and of the men who laughed the heavy days away are pleasant.
We're going to raid San Antonio de los Banos two hundred of us to get her some pickles, and jam, and candy, and tooth-powder." Certain histories of the Cuban War for Independence speak of "The Battle of San Antonio de los Banos."
This afternoon I was walking over to the store to buy molasses, and as I came off the bridge and turned up the hill, I saw lots and lots of heelprints in the side of the road, heelprints with little spike holes in them. "Oh! The river drivers have come from up country," I thought, "and they'll be breaking the jam at our falls tomorrow."
The lavatory door had jammed, as doors will jam in earthquakes. Saxham tore it open, and the three shirt-sleeved, ensanguined men ran through the theatre, strewn with the débris from the roof, and through the double glazed doors communicating with the passage, populous with patients who should have been in bed, pursued by nurses as pale and shaken as their stampeding charges.
"The next day, July 18, we marched ahead through a jam of troops, trucks, etc., and came at last to a ration dump, where we fell to and ate our heads off for the first time in nearly two days. When we left there the men had bread stuck on their bayonets. I lugged a ham. All were loaded down. "We finally stopped at the far end of the forest, nearing a dressing station.
"Freddie! oh, Freddie!" called Flossie, coming into the house one day about a month after they had come back from New York. "Where are you, Freddie?" "I'm out in the kitchen gettin' some bread an' jam," he answered. "What d'you want?" "Lucy Turner is with me," went on Flossie. "She says we haven't got any bugs that go around and around and around, and I want to show her.
They finished the afternoon with a prolonged inspection of the fish-tanks, a light repast of jam tarts of questionable freshness, and twopennyworth of peanuts. And, as I said, it was half-past four as they hastened up the path again to the top gate of the Barracks. "I hope he's been good," Judy said, as she turned the handle.
DAMSONS PRESERVED. To keep damsons for winter pies, put them in small stone jars, or wide-mouthed bottles; set them up to their necks in a boiler of cold water, and scald them. Next day, when perfectly cold, fill up the bottles with spring water, and close them down. Another way is to boil one third as much sugar as fruit over a slow fire, till the juice adheres to the fruit, and forms a jam.
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