Gingerbread, composted chiefly of sawdust, coal slack, tar, syrup and chopped feed. Joke books, solemn as the summersault of the trick elephant in his dotage. Cookies, tough enough to be handed down as heirlooms to the Weary Waggleses of futurity. Rancid sardines, to be swallowed fin and scale, head and tail. Pistol cartridges, watch keys, jack-knives, pills, and lead pencils conspicuous chiefly for brittleness. Bologna sausages of the conglomerate era, petrified; like our glorious Union, invincible and indivisible. Engine-turned pickles, submerged in carbolic acid and frosted with vitriol crystals; positively antiscorbutic. Incohesive tooth-brushes cut loose from their base of supplies. Long clay pipes after the form aesthetically affected by the honest Hollander, bibulous, amphibious and narcotic. Dry figs and wormy raisins, savory as the juice of hard tack or tent-pin syrup. Anonymous liquid perdition in sneaking disguises, which, judged by its taste, was a cheap grade of _spiritus strychniti_, but judged by its price was molten pearl diluted with dissolved diamond. Sundries, etc., etc. Supposed necessaries of luxurious military existence some of these, more or less urgent even when subsisting on the enemy. In that case the conversion by assimilation of Confederate provender into Yankee bone and sinew was a delicious, romantic, patriotic, praiseworthy function. The patriots rather enjoyed this process, but they welcomed assistance from the foregoing catalogue.