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But that does not make Zackrist less hungry." He took the bowl from her hands and, emptying a little of it into the wooden bidon that hung to her belt, kept that for himself and, stretching his arm across the straw, gave the bowl to Zackrist, who had watched it with the longing, ravenous eyes of a starving wolf, and seized it with rabid avidity.
The result was that they had forty-eight hours of real suffering. It was harder on the officers than on the men, and hardest of all on the horses. All the soldiers always have a bidon with something in it to drink, and almost invariably they have a bite or so in their sacks. No officer ever has anything on him, and none of them carries a bidon except on a march.
The older appeared pleased with my appetite; his face softened still more, as he remarked: "Bread without wine doesn't taste good," and proffered his bidon. I drank as much as I dared, and thanked him: "Ca va mieux." The pinard went straight to my brain, I felt my mind cuddled by a pleasant warmth, my thoughts became invested with a great contentment.
The mothers returned to fetch their children. The old ladies and Monsieur Leddin were aroused. "C'est fini! Ah!" And in the courtyard one could hear them calling as they dispersed. "Good-night, Madame Cocard." "Good-night, Madame Bidon." "Don't forget." "I won't." "Till next time." "That's it, till next time." A young woman approached me.
To the leather belt about his waist, supported by two straps over his shoulders, were attached his revolver, in its case with twenty rounds of cartridges; his field glasses; his map-case; his bidon for his wine; square document case; his mask against asphyxiating gas; and, if you please, his kodak!
They get their bidons filled. Wish I had a bidon, a dis-donc bidon n'est-ce pas. Faut pas t'en faire, who sang or said that? PEE-p.... We're off. I am almost asleep. Or myself. What's the matter here? Sardines writhing about, cut it out, no room for that sort of thing. Jolt. "Paris." Morning. Morning in Paris.
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