Short and Singular Rations

Short story from Twain’s collection of works The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and Other Sketches. On Monday, the thirty-eighth day after the disaster we had nothing left said the third mate but a pound and a half of ham – the bone was a good deal the heaviest part of it – and one soup-and-bully tin. These things were divided among the fifteen men, and they ate it all – two ounces of food to each man. I do not count the ham-bone, as that was saved for next day. For some time, now,