"I must admit that that is a great consolation; and it is satisfactory, too, that when we do fight we are fired at principally with slugs; which we both know from experience are not pleasant customers, but at any rate are a great improvement upon rifle bullets, pom poms, and shells of all sizes.
"Yes, I don't even grudge them the jam, when I think how awful it must be to be kept, for months, at some miserable little station on the railway, guarding the roads.

We get restless here at the end of three or four days, but fancy spending months at it!" "Besides, Hallett, in such places they get their rations regularly, and have nothing to do but to eat and get fat.

If you were living under such conditions, you would be something awful at the end of six months of it." "There is a great deal in that," Hallett said, thoughtfully.

"Yes; I don't know that, after all, the gains and advantages are not with us; and indeed, if we had our time to go over again, we could make ourselves fairly comfortable.
"In the first place, I should purchase a large ground sheet, which I might use as a tent.

I would have a smaller one to lie upon, and the biggest mackintosh that money could buy.