Worcester in the Spanish War; being the stories of companies A, C, and H, 2d regiment, and company G, 9th regiment, , during the war for the liberation of Cuba, May-November, 1898, with a roster of ERShumway Camp, no30, Spanish War veterans, followed by a brief account of the work of Worcester citizens in aiding the soldiers and their families . on them. Food was an ever present and press-ing theme. At home, amid the manvdistractions and division of labor, itcomes most prominently into view atmeal time, but when a man has to behis own purveyor and cook as well, hisstomach assumes unprece
Worcester in the Spanish War; being the stories of companies A, C, and H, 2d regiment, and company G, 9th regiment, , during the war for the liberation of Cuba, May-November, 1898, with a roster of ERShumway Camp, no30, Spanish War veterans, followed by a brief account of the work of Worcester citizens in aiding the soldiers and their families . on them. Food was an ever present and press-ing theme. At home, amid the manvdistractions and division of labor, itcomes most prominently into view atmeal time, but when a man has to behis own purveyor and cook as well, hisstomach assumes unprecedented im-portance. In Cuba, men found them-selves doing things undreamed of a fewweeks before. Thus when certainWellingtons were cooking beans onemorning, they were admonished of thenearness of a sitting guinea hen. Tokill the bird was the work of a mo-ment, and her flesh made a savoryfeast for the partakers. Her eggs, fartoo near parturition or hatching forYankee use, were traded with the Cu-bans for good, ripe mangoes, whilethe wings, sent back to Worcester,adorned for the season the summer hatof an officers wife. Trading was evera New Englanders prerogative, andwhat he could not eat himself wasreadily exchanged with the natives forsomething they were delighted to getrid of. The bacon, which had becometoo rank for northern nostrils, not to. The Only Pickaxe in the Regiment. mention stomachs, found reach- marketamong those to the manor born. Realshower-baths were possible here, for itrained every day, and any one couldsee when the clouds would drop theircontents. There was nothing to pre-vent, so the men were wont to soaptheir bodies and let the cooling rainwash them clean; but one day theirCaptain reckoned without his host, forthough he had plentifully lathered hisperson in ex])ectations of the showerwhich once in his exjierience failed tocome, from his oleaginous liad to rid himself in some otherand less convenient manner, all thetime of course running the gaunt
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