Since it had been laid out so ostentatiously on paper in 1863 it had progressed to the sum total of “two ‘she-bangs’ which fulfill[ed] all requirements of the place by dispensing bacon, coffee, tea, sugar, and calico in limited quantities and forty-rod liquor in unlimited quantities.”

a peregrination, or absentment from the body

, And apron, and scissars for head and for tail, Whole bridle and saddle, whitleather, and nall, With collars and harness, for thiller and all[…]

The adventure was mutually beneficial.