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his belt.
Very often they would good-naturedly rail at him as he rode into and out of camp, thus indicating their dislike of his errand; but the wise ones went directly to quarters and began to pack up.
When it was officially announced to the men on line at night that marching orders were received, and that at such an hour next morning tents would be struck and the men in packing up. place, equipped and provided as already stated, those men who had not already decided the question retired to their huts and took an account of stock in order to decide what to take and what to leave.
As a soldier would lay out two articles on the bunk, of equally tender associations, one could seem to hear him murmur, with Gay, “How happy could I be with either Were t'other dear charmer away.”
as he endeavored to choose between them, knowing too well that both could not be taken.
The “survival of the fittest”
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