. On wheels and how I came there; . ve you made yourchoice of rations yet? And are you sure you havethe best ? 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 l)y boiling the horn inour blicker, one end at a time, until the inside, by alittle jarring, slipped out, and was a genuine prizealmost 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 cou
. On wheels and how I came there; . ve you made yourchoice of rations yet? And are you sure you havethe best ? 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 l)y boiling the horn inour blicker, one end at a time, until the inside, by alittle jarring, slipped out, and was a genuine prizealmost 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 quantity 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 fiir the most valuable i-ation securedby any of my mess during the seven months we wereguests at the Wirz Hotel, and exce]-)ting severalblank days, the small square piece of hide was £^ CHAPTER Days in Prison. tllE very last ])risoners mIio ever entered An-dersonville were three liandsonie looking sailors,who came in the latter part of February, Jack tars ■ were dressed in new suits ofsailor bine, and wore pretty dark-blue 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 conntenance, whose clear eyes weie asdeep blue as the sky, and wdiose wavy auburn haircrowned a shapely head, w^as 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 ])lace inthat filthy den, among ns ragged, dirty, prisoners, asa fair Easter lily would in a
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