Besides, since the stake, that ultima ration theologorum, has gone out of fashion, this method of government has lost its efficacy.

The mess sergeant should find out whether lunch or the reserve ration will be carried on the march and should attend to these details in the evening in order that the issue can be made promptly in the morning.

While the servants remained it was necessary to keep the peace, but cutlets, mashed potatoes, and a ration of sherry having been distributed, the room was cleared, and a fair field remained for immediate action.

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

CHAPTER XXIV That ration fatigueSketches in requestBailleulBaths and lunaticsHow to conduct a war.

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.

After about an hour's struggle with the elements we at last succeeded, with the aid of the ration box, the sack of coke and a few tins of bully, in reducing the water level inside to six inches.

" CHAPTER XXIV THAT RATION FATIGUESKETCHES IN REQUESTBAILLEULBATHS AND LUNATICSHOW TO

Take the ration party's job, for instance.

As one sits in a brilliantly illuminated, comfortable, warm theatre, having just come from a cosy and luxurious restaurant, just think of some poor devil half-way along those corduroy boards struggling with a crate of biscuits; the ration "dump" behind, the trenches on in front.

On the arrival of the field kitchens we all managed to get some tea in our mess tins; and the rum ration being issued we were a little more fortified against the cold.

Three days after the contrabands commenced their work, five days' rations were served to them,a soldier's ration for each laborer, and half a ration for each dependant.

Three days after the contrabands commenced their work, five days' rations were served to them,a soldier's ration for each laborer, and half a ration for each dependant.

The allowance was liberal,as a soldier's ration, if properly cooked, is more than he generally needs, and the dependant for whom a half-ration was received might be a wife or a half-grown child.

The allowance was liberal,as a soldier's ration, if properly cooked, is more than he generally needs, and the dependant for whom a half-ration was received might be a wife or a half-grown child.

PINK RATS.You assume that if you were appointed a mopper-up you would ex-officio be put in charge of the rum-ration.

Now cooks for kindlewood would give great riches, And in the dixies the pale stew congeals, And ration-parties are not free from hitches,

" Mills said nothing for the moment but splashed himself out a liberal allowance of brandy into his glass, and mixed it with a somewhat more carefully measured ration of soda.

The morning before, they had issued their last ration of flour.

'Course their owners made them work and he looked out for the ration and in slavery.

On another occasion a patrol which was attacked by a large swarm was only saved by the savoir faire of its commander, who ordered his men each to ward off the rush of the hungry insects with a ration biscuit held out to them at arm's length.

The work of unloading the trains commenced, and after careful computation the Chief Commissary determined, that, by an abridgment of the ration, diminishing the daily issue of flour, and issuing bacon only once a week, his supplies would last until the first of June.

Bread forms one of the most important parts of the ration of the German soldier.

In time of peace, the private soldier is supplied day by day with one pound and nine ounces of bread; when fighting for the Fatherland, every man is entitled to a free ration of over two pounds of bread, and field bakery trains and steam ovens for providing the large amount of bread required, form a recognized part of the equipment of the German army.

In the island's finances a system of fraud and peculation prevailed, and the amount of public revenue was so inadequate to meet the expenses of maintaining the garrison that the officers' and soldiers' pay was reduced to one-fourth of its just amount, and they often received only a miserable ration.