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I wish now to give it still further emphasis by citing some illustrations which the historian has neglected for “nobler game.”
Some of the inventions which I shall refer to were impractical, and had only a brief existence.
Of course your small inventor and would-be benefactor to his kind clearly foresaw that men who were about to cut loose from the amenities of civil life would be likely to spend money freely in providing themselves before their departure with every-
thing portable that might have a tendency to ameliorate the condition of soldier life.
With an eye single to this idea these inventors took the field.
One of the first products of their genius which I recall was a combination knife-fork-and-spoon arrangement, which was peddled through the state camping-grounds in great numbers and variety.
Of course every man must have one.
So much convenience in so small a compass must be taken advantage of. It was a sort of soldier's trinity, which they all thought that they understood and appreciated.
But I doubt
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