Good water was there, and that was all; I had not yet learned to appreciate that.

There was not a tree nor a shrub to give shade.

The only thing I could see, except sky and sand, was a ruined adobe enclosure, with no roof.

I sat in the ambulance until our tent was pitched, and then Jack came to me, followed by a six-foot soldier, and said: "Mattie, this is Bowen, our striker; now I want you to tell him what he shall cook for our supper; and--don't you think it would be nice if you could show him how to make some of those good New England doughnuts?
I think Major Worth might like them; and after all the awful stuff we have had, you know," et caetera, et caetera.

I met the situation, after an inward struggle, and said, weakly, "Where are the eggs ?" "Oh," said he, "you don't need eggs; you're on the frontier now; you must learn to do without eggs." Everything in me rebelled, but still I yielded.