Everybody enjoyed it except those who occupied adjoining rooms, and possessed a desire for sleep.

Some of these persons were inclined to excuse our hilarity, on the ground that the boys ought to enjoy themselves.

"The boys!" Most of them were on the shady side of twenty-five, and some had seen forty years.
About nine o'clock in the forenoon of the day following Price's evacuation of Lexington, we obtained news of the movement.

The mail at noon, and the telegraph before that time, carried all we had to say of the affair, and in a few hours we ceased to talk of it.

On the evening of that day, a good-natured "contractor" visited our room, and, after indulging in our varied amusements until past eleven, bade us good-night and departed.
Many army contractors had grown fat in the country's service, but this man had a large accumulation of adipose matter before the war broke out.