human
It's easy enough to talk about providing something, grumbled the quartermaster, while riding at ease beside Deck.
gpt
I'd turn the shirt on my back into a peck of potatoes if I could, but the thing can't be done--and there you are. I've lived on nothing but hardtack and a couple of potatoes for two days,--and your father has done the same,--and yet some of the boys kick.
human
It's hard lines, truly, answered Deck, soberly.
gpt
But we shall have to make the best of it, and that is all there is to it. When we halt for dinner, I'll make my battalion a little speech on the subject.
human
I wish you would, for the third company is the hardest kicker of the lot, grumbled Hickman, and rode off, trying to solve in his mind how he was going to make six boxes of hardtack, two barrels of potatoes, and one box of beans last nearly a thousand men two days or more.
gpt
I'll just have to swell out them beans, that's all, he said.
human
And all hands will have to play Yankees and eat 'em,
gpt
Our quartermaster is doing his best, he said,
human
We didn't mean anything, Major, came from a private of the second company.
gpt
The quartermaster is all right. Three cheers for him!