The bread was the most satisfactory and nourishing; the mush the bulkiest--it made a bigger show, but did not stay with one so long.

The dumplings held an intermediate position--the water in which they were boiled becoming a sort of a broth that helped to stay the stomach.

We received no salt, as a rule.

No one knows the intense longing for this, when one goes without it for a while.

When, after a privation of weeks we would get a teaspoonful of salt apiece, it seemed as if every muscle in our bodies was invigorated.