And on embarkation mornings no food is served." "They start us away hungry ?" Dick asked.
"Always, so I have been told.

But you are not missing much, comrade, for you are not yet accustomed to the food the Germans feed their prisoners, and no one eats much of it until he has been hungry for a few days.

Then something like an appetite for the stuff comes to one." Finding himself somewhat chilled and cramped Prescott began to go briskly through some of the Army setting-up exercises.
"That is a fine thing to warm the blood," said one of the French officers, "but I warn you that it will make you hungry." The other French officers now came forward to make themselves known to the only American officer in this prison camp.
"We are moving to-day," said one.

"Will it be better in the new prison than here, do you think ?" Prescott asked.
"In some ways at least.

We shall undoubtedly be housed in a wooden building, and that should be warmer at night.