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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1844 edition. Excerpt: ... heed to our demands, and we soon found that in the darkness of night, at least, it would be useless to press them further. We were quite worn out: except during the brief and broken sleep which we had been able to snatch, under the pel ting of last night's storm, neither minds nor bodies had been relaxed for six-and-thirty hours; and even in the stoutest and most willing of men, there are limits beyond which nature will not go. We made our way into the market-place; and there, under the shelter of a wooden shed, we enjoyed a couple of hours of deep and refreshing slumber. This might be about two o'clock in the morning. But at four we were astir again, and in search of the articles which we had been directed to convey to the front. While thus engaged, another want began to press: we were sorely beset both by hunger and thirst, and, seeing the door of a public-house open, we entered, and called for beer. It was brought, and we drank it; after which, having some occasion to step out, I thrust my head, by chance, into a sort of stable, and beheld what was to me a truly agreeable spectacle. There, in a corner, stood a quantity of sacks, each of which bore the impress of the broad arrow; and each, as on more closely examining it, I ascertained, was filled with biscuit. In an instant I communicated to my comrades the result of these accidental researches; and we determined that, let come what might, the Coldstream regiment should, at all events, benefit by it. Away then we went out by the yard gate; and finding in the market-place a waggon with four horses, we made no scruple about appropriating the concern to ourselves. If the waggon had any owner at all, I am quite sure that he was not near to take care of it; so we seized the fore horse by...
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- PublisherRareBooksClub.com
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 0217618421
- ISBN 13 9780217618427
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages68
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