Everybody was liberally supplied with this dish.

On the table were a couple of great dishes of sliced ham, and there were some other eatables of minor importance--preserves and New Orleans molasses and such things.

There was also plenty of tea and coffee of an infernal sort, with brown sugar and condensed milk, but the milk and sugar supply was not left at the discretion of the boarders, but was rationed out at headquarters--one spoonful of sugar and one of condensed milk to each cup and no more.

The table was waited upon by two stalwart negro women who raced back and forth from the bases of supplies with splendid dash and clatter and energy.

Their labors were supplemented after a fashion by the young girl Puss.