He has been lagged for beaker hunting, was a mushroom faker [umbrella seller], has been on the steel for snamming a wedge sneezer; […]

[W]e were highly entertained with the antics of two stoats, who had left their hiding places to commence nocturnal depredations; … in the course of a few minutes the whirring of a nide of pheasants convinced us these little vermin had marked them as prey.

The subject of Catacoustics, or the doctrine of reflected sound, is, perhaps, the most unsatisfactory in its results of any branch of physical science.

The events described are those encountered by only 160 men, though the adversity recounted is representative of that experienced by all grunts in Vietnam.