Though I often made fun of what you said, that was simply a way I had; and when I saw you did not mind, I continued in that way, hoping always to vex you; your good temper provoked me, because I knew that you made allowances for me being a Petershof invalid.

The sugar allowance being about half what it ought to be, I take half of the cup unsweetened, thus tasting the bitterness of war, and then I put in the sugar and bask in the sunshine of peace.

Their allowance was only six ounces of bread for eating, and but three small measures of water for drinking, per diem.

The woman's allowance from her husband is nowadays a mere bagatelle.

Their case is rather a hard one, as partridges, snipes, and the most delicious wild ducks abound here, and their allowance of rice and Indian meal would not be the worse for such additions.

Her entire allowance for personal expenses, was the wages of nine women, and her husband would not give her another dollar.

Here is a sample ration as furnished at one of the stores, although, thanks to the kindness of friends, the allowance actually supplied was of a much more varied character: Bread 18 loaves Coffee 1 lb.

In general they are fed once a day, their allowance being a single dried fish, weighing perhaps a pound and a half or two pounds.

The biscuit allowance is now 8-3/4 lbs.

The allowance for labor, in addition to their maintenance, is twenty-five cents per day; but they require those illiterate men to advance the whole before they can leave the prison, and then to take a certificate for their labor, and go for it to another departmentto collect which, is ten times more trouble than the money when received is worth.

In the Jamaica prison the allowance of rice is 14 pints a week to each person.

The June allowance was, it seemed, the missing link.

My daily allowance of composition was five pages of this demy in quarto; and I held my natural laziness sternly to that task day in, day out, to the end.

On the coast, i.e. Natchez and the Gulf of Mexico, the allowance was one barrel of ears of corn, and a pint of salt per month.

Their allowance for cloathing in the island, is seldom more than six yards of oznabrigs each year.

Under summer conditions, such as were contemplated, when there was less cold for the men to endure, and less firing needed to melt the snow for cooking, the fullest allowance of oil was 1 gallon to last a unit of four men ten days, or 1/40 of a gallon a day for each man.

"The usual allowance of food was one quart of corn a day, to a full task hand, with a modicum of salt; kind masters allowed a peck of corn a week; some masters allowed no salt.

And again at the Pequot House at New London on the eve of a varsity boat-race, when a Yale crowd shook a big wad of money and taunts at Bob until with a yell he left his usually well-leaded feet and frightened me, whose allowance was dollars to Bob's cents, at the sum total of the bet-cards he signed before he cleared the room of Yale money and came to with a white face streaming with cold perspiration.

If, then, from one-third to one-half of the air passes unconsumed through the fire, an allowance of 240 cubic feet of air for each pound of coal will be a small enough allowance to answer the requirements of practice, and in some cases as much as 300 cubic feet will be required,the difference depending mainly on the peculiar configuration of the furnace.

"The weekly allowance to grown slaves on this plantation, where I was best acquainted, was one peck of corn.

It is shown also by the direct testimony recorded above, of slaveholders and others, in all parts of the slaveholding south and west, that the general allowance on plantations is corn or meal and salt merely.

The allowance of bread is one pound and a half per day for four persons.