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If I do say it myself, I believe we've got as good a crowd of square, stand-up, trust 'em-every-minute-in-your-life boys, as ever thawed hard-tack and sowbelly. We got all the grunters and weak sisters fanned out the first year, and since then we've been on a business basis, all the time. We're in a mighty good brigade, too.
You see I am trying, as you requested, to give you a realistic picture." "That is what I wish," said the young girl; but her cheeks were pale as she spoke. "In the morning I was awakened by one of my men bringing me a cup of hot coffee, and when I had taken it, and later a little breakfast of raw pork and hard-tack, I felt like a new man.
Some of them did it to please the Devil, others to flatter the Inca, and many because they disliked his sermons, in which he scolded them for their vices and abominated among his converts the possession of four or six wives. So they punished him in the matter of food, and forced him to send to Cuzco for victuals. The Convent sent him hard-tack, which was for him a most delicious banquet."
Dubbadoe and her pretty daughter, when they drive in from Milton to see you, of the ice-cream you ate last night at the summer party which the Bellinghams gave the Pinckneys, of the hard-tack and boiled dog which dear John is now digesting in front of Petersburg, the real business, I say, is to supply the human frame with carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen in organized forms.
After our frugal breakfast, which consisted mostly of hard-tack and coffee, a thorough inspection of the command was made, and all men reported to have unserviceable or unsafe horses, were sent to the rear. The weather is perfectly charming to-day, although quite too warm, in the midday heat, to be comfortable marching. May 2.
In the balmy morning we made our first portage through a wood of spruces. How light our firkin was growing! its pork, its hard-tack, and its condiments were diffused among us three, and had passed into muscle. Lake Degetus, as pretty a pocket lake as there is, followed the carry. Next came Lake Ambajeejus, larger, but hardly less lovely.
We were up at three o'clock, and started soon after getting some hard-tack and coffee. Our division was alone, Emory's division having taken a different route. We made a hard march of twenty miles. A great many men fell out, but we pushed the Rebels hard. At 5 P.M. they made a stand and an artillery duel ensued in which we lost a few men.
If you taste it so much there won't be any left to go on the table!" "Where's the bag of hard-tack, Garth?" "Grub-box number two; port side by the rail." "Idiot! You put them on the bottom of the box! The water's leaked through, and they're all mush underneath!" "What's the diff? Stick the soft ones in the lobscouse!"
It was impossible for the white soldiers to perspire unless they were near marshes where they might quench their intolerable thirst in the brackish waters. Owing to the lack of fresh vegetables and improper food, the rations of bully beef and hard-tack, and the assaults of blood-sucking insects, many deaths occurred.
They were still running up and down the wharves, stamping barefoot on the pitchy floorings, doing the last errands of the captains, putting the hard-tack aboard, and a final cask of wine! And the sun was down. Everybody more than a thousand men in all, there were was now on board. The boats were waiting only for the papers to come down from the offices. How slow those lubbers worked!
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