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"An' no ration parties can got up oh gawd!" "Wot about it?" "No ration parties means no grub an' NO rum. Wot a pore Tommy 'as got ter put up with." The following day marching through Ypres they moved further up the Line to a camp situated near St.
One inquiry will be interesting, in the light of the present feeling on the temperance question: "First Would not, in your opinion, the service be benefitted by dispensing with the whisky ration? Second Could the soldier be brought to submit cheerfully to the privation?"
Ogier's imprisonment lasted long; Charlemagne was astonished to hear, from time to time, that he still held out; and when he inquired more particularly of Turpin, the good Archbishop, relying on his own understanding of the words, did not hesitate to affirm positively that he allowed his prisoner no more than the permitted ration.
A week's rations then would be two and one-third pounds of bacon worth ten cents, and eight and three-fourths pounds of meal, worth, say, ten cents more. As a matter of fact, I do not presume that at any time we got this full ration. It would surprise me to learn that we averaged two-thirds of it. The meal was ground very coarse and produced great irrition in the bowels.
But the Canadian headquarters were at Montreal; and Simpson fixed what might be called the field headquarters at Norway House, near the north end of Lake Winnipeg, a commanding strategic point in the heart of the great fur territories. Here he was always busy introducing discipline, enforcing a much-needed reduction in the ration of rum given to the Indians, and reporting home.
"Could we not make the flour last more than the fourteen days by putting ourselves on half rations?" Harold asked. "We might do that," Peter said, "but I tell you the rations would be small even for fourteen days. We've calkilated according to how much we eat when we've plenty of meat, but without meat it'd be only a starvation ration to each.
The sugar, coffee, and smaller parts of the ration were good, but we had no vegetables, and the few jars of preserves and some few vegetables kept by the sutler were too expensive to be indulged in. So during all the period I lived at Fort Duncan and its sub-camps, nearly sixteen months, fresh vegetables were practically unobtainable.
Emergency ration of some sort, such as chocolate, raisins, dates. Spare clothing including cardigan or sweater, dry gloves, dry socks, scarf, cap to cover ears. First-aid equipment. Map. Wax and scraper. A great many people will laugh at me for suggesting all this gear, but I do so out of experience.
The Planeteer opened it and found a block of mixed vegetables, a slab of space-meat, and two units of biscuit. He wrinkled his nose. Space-meat he didn’t mind. It was chewy but tasty. The mixed vegetable ration was chosen for its food value and not for taste. A good mouthful of earth-grass would be a lot more palatable.
As far as we can estimate, we have somewhere about 500 lbs. of meat and about the same quantity of biscuit. To make this last for three months we ought not to consume very much more than 5 lbs. a day of each, which, when divided among eighteen people, will make the daily ration 5 oz. of meat and 5 oz. of biscuit for each person.
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