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Updated: June 6, 2025
He broke his bowie-knife prying the lid off a cracker-box. He piled his knapsack with the others one day when the regiment was ordered to strip them off for a charge, and neither he nor his comrades ever saw one of them again. He never attempted to replace it.
The men crowded around close, those in front squatting, those behind looking over their shoulders. Newmark cleared a cracker-box of drying socks and drew it to him. "These three are the cards," he said, speaking rapidly. "There is the jack of hearts. I pass my hands so. Pick the jack, one of you," he challenged, leaning back from the cracker-box on which lay the three cards, back up.
He leaned again from the bed, reached out with the board, and caught the nails in a crack on the upper edge of the cracker-box. He dragged the box toward him until it caught against a ridge in the rough board floor, when the nails bent outward and slipped away from the crack. Ward lay back, exhausted with the effort he had made and tormented with the pain in his leg.
There were many appliances which Maw gradually had installed for facilitating housekeeping in her day-to-day camps folding beds, a cracker-box pantry, a planed board for table, racks for groceries and the like, all strung alongside the car, so numerous and extensive that by the time the Hickory Bend Outing Club's great wall tent had been added you barely could see the wheels underneath the moving mass.
"So your hen-food don't work, Pap?" Pap chuckled. "It's a-workin," he said, "and you can give me a dozen o' them eggs. And, say, you need't tell Sally." Billings laughed. "I'm on," he said. Pap put the bag of eggs back of the cracker-box, and put three of them in his pocket. When he reached home he quietly slipped around the house and deposited the three eggs in three nests, and went it.
Kitty stalked it with elaborate but unnecessary caution; the little Rabbit simply sat up and looked faintly amused. He did not try to run, and Kitty sprang on him and bore him off. As she was not hungry, she carried him to the cracker-box and dropped him among the Kittens. He was not much hurt.
What wars I have seen have taken place in spots isolated and inaccessible, far from the haunts of men. By day you followed the fight and tried to find the censor, and at night you sat on a cracker-box and by the light of a candle struggled to keep awake and to write deathless prose. In Belgium it was not like that.
In it were twenty-dollar gold-pieces, the coin that used to be "Good for the Masses." Behind that was about thirty dollars in two rolls, and last of all in an old, oblong tin cracker-box a great bundle of papers. A list of these papers was pasted on one end of the box. They comprised deeds, titles, insurance policies, tax receipts, mortgages, and all the papers relating to the property.
Meade grave and silent sat on a cracker-box and ate in an absent way, or scribbled orders, and at last directed that the picked body of men, the provost's guards, should join their regimental commands. About a quarter to noon the generals one by one rode away. Having no especial duty, Penhallow walked to where on the Crest the eighteen guns were drawn up.
"Speak so that the lowest may understand, and the rest will have no trouble." And it had worked. At the halting lameness of the beginning an egg was thrown, fortunately wide of the mark. After this incident Stephen fairly astonished his audience, especially an elderly gentleman who sat on a cracker-box in the rear, out of sight of the stand.
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