Can foresee short rations of tobacco.

"I've only taken short rations for two weeks.

The 54th Division was in the Gaza defences with all its transport allotted to the divisions taking part in the forward move, but as the 54th had five days' rations in dumps close at hand it was able to maintain itself, and the railway was being pushed on from the wadi Ghuzze with the utmost speed.

III The question concerning the quality of the beef served as a ration to our troops during the recent warin Cuba and Puerto Rico, and aboard the transportshas already been pretty thoroughly answered, one way or the other.

Companies K and H were so beset that they forgot to boil their coffee, and would have gone thirsty to their dewy beds, if the other companies' cooks had not shared their rations with the gossiping heroes.

Our rations at this time were a special Anglo-Italian blend; less meat, bacon, cheese and tea than in the British ration, but macaroni, rice, coffee, wine and lemons from the Italian.

He arranged for us all to draw rations from the Italian Comando di Tappa.

This appears from the fact, that in the only slave states which regulate the slaves' rations by law, (North Carolina and Louisiana,) the legal ration contains no meat.

Tracks were constructed, cables buried, concealed gun positions and brigade and battalion headquarters made, and from the 25th October troops were ready to move off with two days' rations on the man.

The reader will perceive by examining the preceding statistics that the average daily ration throughout this country and Europe exceeds the usual slave's allowance at least a pound a day; also that one-third of this ration for soldiers and convicts in the United States, and for solders and sailors in Europe is meat, generally beef; whereas the allowance of the mass of our slaves is corn, only.

But so it is, and the pampered modern lover may well wonder how his great-grandfather and great-grandmother supported the days, or even kept their love alive, on such famine rations as a letter once a month.

The sea ration among the Portuguese, has become the usual ration in the navies of European powers generally.

That's what comes of eating your iron ration without authority!"

Each man held an open tin of Mr. Maconochie's admirable ration between his knees.

It is easy to tell the plump, well-fed birds, just home from the South, from those who have been obliged to live on half rations during the northern winter.

Indeed, as the observant Jack afterward learned, it was part of the plan of the groups that first began to create great fortunes during the war to make the soldiers pay for their rations en route to the seat of war, or depend upon the charity of citizens along the railway lines.

They will receive rations like National Guards, and a pension will be given to the mothers of those who die for the Republic.

'I'm for supper,' he observed, as he took his iron ration out of his haversack.

The adjutant also told me that I should still get rations through Company D, but that I was free to go and come when not on special duty, and that I was expected to keep him advised of my goings, so that I could be found when wanted.

It was a long, weary waiting, on starvation rations until the nineteenth of February.

It may also be impossible to get rations up to the line during the night.

He lives on the lake, and usually comes ashore to draw his rations about lunch-time.