After an experiment of two years, the preceding ration being found insufficient, it was increased, by act of Congress, July 16, 1798, and was as follows: beef one pound and a quarter, bread one pound two ounces; salt two quarts, vinegar four quarts, soap four pounds, and candles one and a half pounds to the hundred rations.

I had thought of a dozen phrases wherewith to soap the ways, so to speak, down which might be launched my petition.

When he had washed his hands, he set to cleaning the iron part of his weapon; then he devoted three minutes to soaping the wooden handle, which was also stained with blood.

As he soaped his head he tried, according to his rules of revision, to remember the overnight reading.

"Though there's worse things than bad legs," continued Miss Vickers, soaping her scrubbing-brush mechanically; "being lost at sea, for instance.

But Naomi was standing with her back to them both, and her hands soaping the linen in the tubgently, however, and without any splashing.

One good day among many bad ones showed no more bear signs, so we soaped the seams of the otter boat, which leaked badly, and set sail for Three Saints Bay, named after Shelikoff's ship.

An old friend of ours thought it a good plan to soap the inside of the stocking before setting out, and we have seen him break a raw egg into his shoes before putting them on, saying it softened the leather and made him "all right" for the day.

'Yes; but you will not refuse a little refreshment to poor fellows like us, this cold night; that would be as much against the principles of your society as war.' 'Thee's from Trenton?' 'No, I thank you; Nathaniel Collins is too well known as a friend to the country, and an honest man, to aid a refugeewe know that.' 'Soap the old fox well,' whispered one of the band.