. . houlder andtake pot-luck with the canteen was thecomplement of the haver-sack. These two were asinseparable and indispensa-ble to each other as the two S of a pair of canteen was a simple tr, made of tin and cov-ered with woolen cloth, witha strap to throw over theshoulder. It was shapedlike the earth, only a good:i more flattened at thepoles, its halves being sol-dered together around theequator, so to speak. Itwould hold about threepints of water. r the samequantity of something else—milk, cider, sorghum m
. . houlder andtake pot-luck with the canteen was thecomplement of the haver-sack. These two were asinseparable and indispensa-ble to each other as the two S of a pair of canteen was a simple tr, made of tin and cov-ered with woolen cloth, witha strap to throw over theshoulder. It was shapedlike the earth, only a good:i more flattened at thepoles, its halves being sol-dered together around theequator, so to speak. Itwould hold about threepints of water. r the samequantity of something else—milk, cider, sorghum molasses, or the vigorous and searching0 soldier ever permitted himself to be longwithout a canteen. If he lost his own, or a wagon ran over it,he rarely failed to supply himself the next night from some othercompany or regiment. The soldier who awoke in the morning tofind his canteen gone would make a nocturnal raid on some otherfellow, and thus keep things moving. The manifold uses of thecanteen have already been referred to. Its peculiarity was the. HENRY HILDENHKAND, ANY B, M\i \ I■OlKTH. 502 USES OF THE OLD CANTKKN. [April, fact that its usefulness did not cease when, battered and worn, itwas duly and impressively condemned by a board of came into play that wonderful fertility of resource whichwas constantly exemplified in the daily life of the soldier, bywhich he was enabled to utilize whatever came to hand to promotehis comfort and well-being. The old canteen was thrown intothe fire and the heat soon melted the solder by which the halveswere joined. The soldier found himself in possession of two tin basins, eight inches in di-ameter and about twuinches deep at the of these he carried inhis haversack, or tied by astring upon the outside. Itsweight was nothing, and hefound uses for it that neverentered into the philosophyof the man who made wash basin was omittedfrom the outfit of the sol-dier and he often used thehalf-canteen for this pur-po
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