At noon, each man got his half-chark (a wine glass) full of rum and a four-quart iron pot of fish soup made from salt salmon, potatoes and graham flour ... in the evening another half chark of rum and 20 cents as pay for the day's work.

It brings his payings into close and convenient correspondence with his usings of commodities, and different branches of his expenditure thus become easily comparable.

The resulting solution is evaporated and converted into prills, i.e. dense flakes or grains, of solid ammonium nitrate.

“Well,” drawled Balou, “We're jist a coup'la gents passin' through, thinkin' we'd find a boat 'n work our way down ta N'Orlins.”