It is evil times that we have fallen upon, and how we shall do, when the snow begins to fall heavily, is more than I can tell you." "At any rate, Colonel, from what I hear you are a good deal better off than the division at Guarda, for you are but a day's march from the river." "The carts take two days over it," the colonel said, "and then bring next to nothing; for the poor bastes that draw them are half starved, and it is as much as they can do to crawl along.

They might just as well keep the whole division at Abrantes, instead of sticking half of them out here, just as if the French were going to attack us now.
"There is the luncheon bugle.

After we have done, you may tell us how you and Ryan got out of the hands of the French, for I suppose you were not exchanged.".