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The house-mouse looked at it and sighed: "What a lot you've eaten already!" she said. "And I daresay you have a great deal more down there in your store-room." "No, that I haven't!" said the wood-mouse. "I shall be glad if I can get through the rest of the winter on half-rations. If my own child were suffering want, I could not give it so much as a nut. Times are awfully bad."
The mails brought us letters from our friends at home, saying how much they envied us who were spending Christmas in the Holy Land. But those who were up the line spent Christmas Day soaked to the skin in a gale of wind and rain, while their Christmas dinner consisted of half-rations of bully beef and biscuit. They were wishing themselves anywhere else upon this earth.
His first general order was to put the garrison on two meals a day. She clapped her little hands, eyes sparkling with excitement. "Are we really snow-bound? Must we go on half-rations?" "It is the part of wisdom, lieutenant," he answered, smiling at her enthusiasm. "We don't know how long this siege is going to last.
Once he dashed out as far as Ushant, but turned back, lest it should pass him in the night and find Plymouth undefended; and smaller grew the messes and leaner and paler the seamen's faces. Still not a man murmured or gave in. They had no leisure to be sick. The last week of July had now come. There were half-rations for one week more, and powder for two days' fighting. That was all.
And amongst these, whose only fault was an imperfect sense of their military obligations, was the residue of cowards and malingerers shed by every great army engaged in protracted operations. The men were already accustomed to half-rations of green corn, and they would be no worse off in Maryland and Pennsylvania, untouched as yet by the ravages of war, than in the wasted fields of Virginia.
'You can't shine corny feet and he hasn't had his breakfast. 'I haven't had mine either, I said. 'Breakfast for two more, uncle, Pyecroft sang out. 'Go out an' buy it then, was the answer, 'or else it's half-rations. Pyecroft turned to Leggatt, gave him his marketing orders, and despatched him with the coppers. 'I have got four new tyres on my car, I began impressively. 'Yes, said Mr.
"If papa is well and strong enough to hunt." "My love, there is nothing amiss with me nothing that need trouble me this day week. A man may have a headache, mayn't he, child, without people making any fuss about it?" "I should like you to see Dr. Martin, papa. Don't you think he ought to see the doctor, Rorie? It's not natural for him to be ill." "I'm not going to be put upon half-rations, Vixen.
Eh, it's in a bad shape, that leg, that sore runs like a fountain; lotion of bran and water, lint, half-rations, a strong licorice tea. Number Two, show your throat your dirty throat. It's getting worse and worse, that throat; the tonsils will be cut out to-morrow." "But, doctor " "Eh, I am not asking anything from you, am I? Say one word and I'll put you on a diet." "But, at least "
Now and again a cats-paw would ripple across the plain of water, but there were no clouds, there was no sight of land. They kept on pulling. For three, for four days a week for ten days they tugged at the oars, except when a favouring breeze came. The water was reduced to a few pints, the food to a few days' half-rations.
Not seldom only half-rations were issued, and more often none at all. The weather, for many days in succession, was abominable, and the forest bivouacs were comfortless in the extreme.
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