. On wheels and how I came there; . have you made yourchoice of rations yet? And are you sure you havethe best 1 Here it comes, a genuine prize package, inthe shape of a horn, and worth any four or five otherrations on the board. No one knew its value untilone of my messmates, Charles Harper, who drewa horn, let the secret slip out by boiling the horn inour blicker, one end at a time, until the inside, by alittle jarring, slipped out, and was a genuine prizeabnost the full size of the horn, and nearly all mar-row. Such portion of it as was not marrow was sosoft, that, after being boiled, it co
. On wheels and how I came there; . have you made yourchoice of rations yet? And are you sure you havethe best 1 Here it comes, a genuine prize package, inthe shape of a horn, and worth any four or five otherrations on the board. No one knew its value untilone of my messmates, Charles Harper, who drewa horn, let the secret slip out by boiling the horn inour blicker, one end at a time, until the inside, by alittle jarring, slipped out, and was a genuine prizeabnost the full size of the horn, and nearly all mar-row. Such portion of it as was not marrow was sosoft, that, after being boiled, it could be readily horn contained a cpiantity of rich, gluey sub-stance, which was scraped out and eaten, and the hornitself was left to charr and be eaten as the jawboneswere, or to be made up into spoons or combs. Thisrich horn was by far the most valuable ration securedby any of my mess during the seven months we wereguests at the AVirz Hotel, and excepting severalblank days, the small square piece of hide ^vas e^ CHAPTER XXXI. Last Days in Prison. W^HE very last prisoners who ever entered An-btl dersonville were three luindsome lookino^ saih^rs,who came in the latter part of February, Jack tars were dressed in new suits ofsailor blue, and wore pretty dark-bine Tain OShantercaps with black ribbon streamers reaching to theirshoulders. The youngest one of them, a finelyformed young fellow about twenty years of age, witha sweet, noble countenance, whose clear eyes wei-e asdeep blue as the sky, and whose wavy auburn haircrowned a shapely head, was one of the handsomestyoung men I ever saw. His complexion was as clearand fine as that of the fairest maiden, and his jauntygarb set it off to the best possible advantage. Thefew weeks before he and his suit became soiled andfaded he was the admired of all and the prince ofthe pen. He looked about as much out of place inthat filthy den, among us ragged, dirty, prisoners, asa fair Easter lily would in a fro
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