A nice night we are in for!" So long as the daylight lasted, the officers stood in groups and chatted of the prospects of the campaign.

There was nothing to do--no possibility of seeing to the comforts of their men.

The place where the regiment was encamped was absolutely bare, and there were no means of procuring any shelter whatever.
"How big is that tarpaulin, Jack ?" "About twelve feet square," Jack said, "and pretty heavy I found it, I can tell you." "What had we better do with it ?" asked Harry.

"I can't lie down under that, you know, with the colonel sitting out exposed to this rain." "The best thing," Jack said after a minute's consideration, "would be to make a sort of tent of it.

If we could put it up at a slant, some six feet high in front with its back to the wind, it would shelter a lot of fellows.