In rifle strength we outnumbered them by two to one, but if the enemy had been well led and properly rationed he, being on the defensive and having strong prepared positions, should have had the power to resist us more strongly.

Beer was strictly rationed.

In a space incredibly brief the United States became a nation of actual workers, in which every individual did his or her share, submitting meanwhile, with good grace and no murmuring, to being rationed.

Next day, at an early hour, I rode out with Ruyter to hunt, my camp being entirely without flesh, and we having been rationed upon very tough old rhinoceros for several days past.

All the bits of hard bread, and fresh beef, in all a scanty meal for one person's supper, was produced and rationed out to the twenty-two persons.

Thanks to the want of foresight of the Government, the people of Paris were rationed to 300 grammes of detestable black bread a day for each person.

" "Left-over meat," as our contemporary remarks, "is more of a problem nowadays than ever before, for, being generally imported, it is not so tender as the pre-war home-grown meat to begin with, and the small amounts that can be saved from the rationed joint rarely seem sufficient for another meal."

"Skilly" had earned honourable mention, and representations to the proper quarters resulted in an order that she should be rationed so long as she remained on canteen duty.

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.

"If all fools were rationed there could be no fixed scale.

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.

We pressed on the poor half-rationed animals, but could get none to lead for more than a few minutes; following, the animals would do fairly well.

A few ounces of water per person remained in the containers; it had been carefully measured and rationed to last the entire journey to O344.

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.

The American soldier uses a The constabulary soldier is ration of certain fixed components rationed in cash and buys the imported over sea.

In like manner, all the salt had been reserved for the army, and we were to be rationed to seventy-five grammes a week per person!

he croaked, "and the water's rationed; even the stinking water.

After this pretty spirt, we were rationed with pork, beef, and bread for three days, and ordered to be ready to march on the instant.