After eating a lunch and filling a canteen with brandy, I went to headquarters and put my own saddle and bridle on the horse I was to ride.

You could have fried an egg on a rock that day, and it always makes you thirsty to get shot anyways serious, thinking of which I hollered peace to old Black Wolf and told him I'd pull straws with him to see who took my canteen down to the creek and got some fresh water.

Other men, prone on their faces, hold canteens of tepid, muddy waterbut ah! a draught to the feverish lips which seems godlike nectar.

But he made no sign, except to open a canteen for the sale of the 20,000 cigarettes, which some intelligent subordinate had saved in preference to valuable gun stores now in Austrian hands.

I picked up a Rebel canteen, and one of our own,but there was something repulsive about the trodden and stained relics of the stale battle-field.

Fortunately, I had procured a canteen of water, and placing it to his lips, he took a long, deep draught, and then sunk back exhausted upon the ground.

To-night he strapped a large canteen of aguardiente about his neck and wore it into battle,and many times, as the danger staggered, we saw him draw courageous spirit through the neck of it, and go on befogged and reassured.

"You might carry a canteen, my dear.

" Espalin brought a canteen.

Captain Walker, of the Sixth, badly shot, was left for dead; he saw the enemy murdering every man who showed signs of life, but the agony of thirst was so insupportable that he could not resist raising his canteen to his lips.

Robbins, while we snatch a bite you bunch what canteens we've got and fill 'em up.

She lent us a very handsome canteen; for the party being obliged to separate, in consequence of the small accommodation afforded in the boats, we could not avail ourselves of that provided by the other ladies with whom we were to travel, until we should all meet again upon the desert.

But the field-mouse small and busy ant Heap their hillocks, to hide if they may the woe: By the bubbling spring lies the rusted canteen, And the drum which the drummer-boy dying let go.

The way Col. Young manages the canteen cannot be too highly recommended.

"Let us promote this canteen to the dignity of a refreshment room," said the ex-ambassador to China, M. de Lagrenée.

He had purposely passed the water-hole, a half-mile south, after having watered the horse and refilled his canteen.

I suppose we saw as many as fifty smashed French rifles, as many as a hundred and fifty canteens and knapsacks.

She did what she could, called for a stretcher, then, crouching close under the bank of raw earth, set her canteen to his blackened lips and held it for him.

Quigley shook the canteen and poured out a softly clinking pile of gold-pieces.

Casey repacked a lightened bag, emptied the coffee grounds, shouldered his canteen and waded back to the cars and to the problem of red mud with an unbelievable quality of tenacity.

Sandersen snatched the canteen which Quade reluctantly passed to the injured man.

The poor creature, with convulsive efforts, struggled to free her arms from Philip's grasp, but he managed to keep his hold until Rawbon had secured her wrists with the stout cord that suspended his canteen.

Waring swung the canteen from his shoulder and carefully hung the strap over Donovan's wrist.

He was still humming the air when he came back to the fire, and saluting Willet politely, tendered a canteen each to him and Tayoga.

The Mexican drank greedily, and threw the empty canteen into the bushes.