Baby indeed!" "But the baby was included in the pass," replied the triumphant father-of-a-family.

"You don't suppose my wife would come down here without her baby! Besides, the pass itself permits her to bring necessary baggage, and is not a baby six months old necessary baggage ?" "But, my dear fellow," said I, rather anxiously, "how can you make the little thing comfortable in a tent, amidst these rigors of a South Carolina winter, when it is uncomfortably hot for drill at noon, and ice forms by your bedside at night ?" "Trust me for that," said the delighted papa, and went off whistling.

I could hear him telling the same news to three others, at least, before he got to his own tent.
That day the preparations began, and soon his abode was a wonder of comfort.

There were posts and rafters, and a raised floor, and a great chimney, and a door with hinges,--every luxury except a latch, and that he could not have, for mine was the last that could be purchased.

One of the regimental carpenters was employed to make a cradle, and another to make a bedstead high enough for the cradle to go under.