Now, uncle, what do they call that there ?" The colored gentleman scrutinized the vegetable closely, and replied, "Well, dey mos' generally calls 'em stock-peas, round hyar aways." "There," said the pea-champion triumphantly.
"But," broke in the leader of the bean party, "Uncle, don't they also call them beans ?" "Well, yes, chile, I spec dat lots of 'em does." And this was about the way the matter usually ended.
I will not attempt to bias the reader's judgment by saying which side I believed to be right.

As the historic British showman said, in reply to the question as to whether an animal in his collection was a rhinoceros or an elephant, "You pays your money and you takes your choice." The rations issued to us, as will be seen above, though they appear scanty, were still sufficient to support life and health, and months afterward, in Andersonville, we used to look back to them as sumptuous.
We usually had them divided and eaten by noon, and, with the gnawings of hunger appeased, we spent the afternoon and evening comfortably.

We told stories, paced up and down, the floor for exercise, played cards, sung, read what few books were available, stood at the windows and studied the landscape, and watched the Rebels trying their guns and shells, and so on as long as it was daylight.

Occasionally it was dangerous to be about the windows.

This depended wholly on the temper of the guards.