She met a ration party, and for the first time in their lives they took refuge over the top, for Ermyntrude was angry.

The ration Section 2.

"The next day, July 18, we marched ahead through a jam of troops, trucks, etc., and came at last to a ration dump, where we fell to and ate our heads off for the first time in nearly two days.

We had been living just lately on ration biscuits and a tin of Australian peach jam.

Having found an empty ration box and half a bag of coke, we started on the job of trying to fence off the water from our cave.

I went down into it and found that, apart from a litter of empty ration-tins, it was unaltered.

Several soldiers hearing some Representatives say that they had eaten nothing since the morning, offered them their ration bread.

The English soldier lays his piece of ration beef at once on the coals, by which means, the one and the better half is lost, and the other burnt to a cinder.

The care and feeding of ration hogs.

" Then swiftly Cerberus' wide mouths I cram With army biscuit smeared with ration jam; And sleep lurks in the luscious plum and apple.

Here a church was being used as a ration store.

Ration day brings out the squaws and dogs in full force; the one to pack the rations to camp, and the latter to pick up stray bits.

The Messing Officer will fry a fillet of sole by means of haybox cookery, and during the process will publicly skin a ration rabbit in such a way that not the slightest depreciation is caused in the value of 2½d.

"'Literary'I remember your stopping Captain Jones's leave for a split infinitive in a ration return.

Benefits were handed over, in the form of groceries on a fixed ration scale.

We had a ration soup and ration ham and ration prunes and cheese; what Tommy Atkins gets.

Or must we submit to the ration-system, with all its cumbrous inequalities, and its hosts of officials; because the will and intelligence of our people, which have risen so remarkably to the other tasks of this war, are not equal to the task of checking food consumption without compulsion?

A ration arrangement such as I used on my sledge trips North would have contained more nutritious elements in a smaller space.

Everything has to make way for a ration train.

I remember the date rather particularly because it was just then that they ceased to ration bacon altogether.

Your consul at New York took two, the French Chamber of Commerce took three, and I am having some more ready for the time when I go to make application for my emergency ration card, in case your food department proves equally susceptible.

As when the golden god, who rules the day, Drives down his flaming chariot to the sea, And leaves the nations here, involved in night, To distant regions he transports his light; So William's rays by turns, two rations cheer, And when he sets to them, he rises here.

To wash this mixture down we had a few swigs of miserably bad lukewarm ration-coffee from a private's canteen, a bottle of confiscated Belgian mineral water, which a private at Charleroi gave us from his store, and a precious quart of the Prince de Caraman- Chimay's commandeered winealso a souvenir of our captivity.

It is interesting to note the supply of some of the principal ration components on hand.

They had for their rations deer and other animals of the chase.