I certainly do long sometimes for the good pumpkin and apple pies which I used to have at home, and confess that a little apple sauce would make my hardtack a little more savory.

I begin to appreciate your good qualities as a housekeeper, Mary, more than ever.

Pies can be got of the sutler, but they are such poor things that I would rather do without than eat them, and I am quite sure they would try my digestion sorely.
"There is one very homely esculent which we crave in the camp--I mean the onion.

It is an excellent preventive of scurvy, a disease to which our mode of living particularly exposes us.

We eat as many as we can get, and should be glad of more.