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prepared to enjoy the contrast between
"Bison + bread" and green corn fried
stewed -baked- roasted and raw
but "Man proposes and God disposes"
While supper was progressing
orders came to march
Supper wsa in every imaginable
shape except one ready to eat
Some had just drawn rations
others were washing their frying
pans some had their beef on the
fire (I for one) others had only got
their flavor into the pan and had
their hands well bedaubed with
dough in short we had supper
in such a shape that we could
neither eat nor carry it along
and then could be heard cursing
and swearing from man to man