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Updated: May 6, 2025
Along the ridge we occupy the Bodyguard are standing-to and watching the action; you see that fellow wearily ease a heavy bandolier; further down another brings an army biscuit from his haversack and breaks it on his boot. And now look at that little group almost straight ahead of us; as the tall Chief-of-Staff moves aside you see a figure on a little camp stool.
Captain Alban, who was a large, strong man, six feet high and in robust health, took my haversack. This lightened me up a good deal, and I was too plucky to let him think I could not keep up, and so I stubbed along, notwithstanding my swollen legs and feet, and that night we put in seventeen miles, after I met him, before we went into camp.
They were peculiarly accoutred, every soldier carrying, beside rifle, haversack and blanket, a flat tank strapped on his back like a knapsack. Their sergeant saluted; he and Recklow exchanged a few words in whispers. Then Recklow strode away down the Belfort road. And the oddly accoutred Alpinists followed him, their steel-shod soles ringing on the pavement.
"I 'm Kaplan; vot could I do for you hey?" "Answer a question if you will, friend. Do you recall selling a haversack to a traveller on the last stage out for Santa Fé in June?" "Vel, I do' no; vas he a big fellow? Maybe de von vat vas killed hey?" "Yes; his name was Moylan, post-sutler at Fort Marcy." "Maybe dot vos it. Why you vant to know hey?" "No harm to you, Kaplan," the Sergeant explained.
Thousands of spectators flocked from Annapolis and the vicinity, in vehicles, on horseback, and on foot, to witness the display. Frank was with his company, carrying his knapsack, haversack, tin cup, and canteen, like the rest, and with his drum at his side. He could not but feel a pride in the grand spectacle of which he formed a part.
"I think so," replied Pen. "Must be, comrade. Those blunderbusters trabookoos don't they call them? couldn't go off with a bang like that. All right; we are ready. But, I say, a soldier should always make his hay when the sun shines. Fill your pockets and haversack, comrade. There they go again! I am glad. It's like the old days once more. It will be `Forward! directly a skirmishing advance.
I found a very hard crust of bread in my haversack, and eat it while the others were asleep in the carriage. "Off with his head," said the Queen. Alice in Wonderland. "Charge against 31963 Failing to drink some oniony tea; Ha! Ha! What! What! I can have you SHOT! D'you realise that I can have you lashed To a wheel and smashed? What? Rot! Yes SHOT! D'you realise this? Right turn!
There is little risk of mistaking the Englishman, with or without his family, who has set out to do Switzerland. He wears a brandy-flask, a field-glass, and a haversack. Whether he has a silk or soft hat, he is certain to wear a veil tied round it.
A split stick made a handle, and he had as good a frying-pan as the one he had lost, and much more convenient, for when done using the handle was thrown away, and the pan slipt into the haversack, where it lay snug and close, instead of clattering about as the frying-pan did when the regiment moved at the double-quick.
Our rifles would be worse than useless, we knew; our pistols we decided to carry as Drake put it, "for comfort." Canteens filled with water; a couple of emergency rations, a few instruments, including a small spectroscope, a selection from the medical kit all these packed in a little haversack which he threw over his broad shoulders. I pocketed my compact but exceedingly powerful field-glasses.
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