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His hopes of a crown faded rapidly, and when the army reached Lisbon it had dwindled to not much more than four thousand effective men the rest being dead of dysentery, or on the sick-list from imprudence in eating and drinking while they found that they had made an unfortunate omission in their machinery for assailing the capital, having not a single fieldpiece in the whole army.
As we were told by one of the inmates, those who arrive with fresh complexions quickly become blanched. Illness is frequent: there are always some on the sick-list. Failure of appetite and indigestion are very common. Diarrhoea is a prevalent disorder: not uncommonly a third of the whole number of students suffering under it at the same time.
And while I am about it, I may as well confess that the five-horse-power, which ran the lights, fans, and pumps, was also on the sick-list. A striking title for a book haunts me, waking and sleeping. I should like to write that book some day and to call it "Around the World with Three Gasolene Engines and a Wife."
The British army in Spain and Portugal suffered greatly through the Peninsular War, from 1808 to 1814. During the whole of that period, there was a constant average of 209 per 1,000 on the sick-list, and the proportion was sometimes swelled to 330 per 1,000.
What did possess that ridiculous old landlubber at Whitford, to go and get on the sick-list on this, of all the nights of the year? June, how can you go on sitting there, when you know you ought to be in your berth?" "I wish he was," said Flora, "but let him have some tea first." "And tell us more, Harry," said Ethel. "Oh! it is famous! I knew he would come light at last.
"Praises him, my dear!" said the woman, looking at the speaker round-eyed. "Praises him! A-mussy me, what for?" "He says he's such a fine-looking man." "Fine-looking? Oh yes, he's fine-looking enough," said the woman scornfully. "And that he is so strong and manly and hearty, and that he never wants to come on the sick-list." "Sick-list! No, my dear, he dursen't.
Two results were sickness and discontent. At times one-fourth of the soldiers were on the sick-list. Three times portions of the army mutinied, and nothing but Washington's influence prevented the disorder from spreading.
But upon my ideal summer day, I suppose that after looking over your sick-list, and all your memoranda, you find that there is nothing to do that need take you to-day beyond your own little realm. And so, with the delightful sense of leisure to breathe and think, you walk forth into the green shade to spend the summer afternoon.
"But I don't wonder that the men who drink, go in for it harder than ever here," continued Miles. "There is such hard work, and constant exposure, and so little recreation of any sort. Yet it is a pity that men should give way to it, for too many of our comrades are on the sick-list because of it, and some under the sod." "It is far more than a pity," returned Armstrong, with unwonted energy.
I retaliated; it is true that I got a sound thrashing; but it was my first and last, and my tyrant got both his eyes well blackened, his cheek swollen and was altogether so much defaced, that he was forced to hide himself in the sick-list for a fortnight.
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