chaff-sack

Updated: May 8, 2025

There was one very large variety of chaff-sack, which was a sleeping-bag in itself; with this and your blanket and cloak, and under the lee of some forage or scrub, you could defy anything. The only peril was that of a loose horse walking on you. On some afternoons we were quite free till the stable-hour at four.

Erskine Childers - In the Ranks of the C.I.V.