A Moonlight Bivouac : A Real Though Unconventional Experience. (In Camp) 1900.

For Sale is a Full Page removed from "The Graphic, June 2nd, 1900," showing a Drawing by John Charlton from a sketch by G. D. Giles, called "A Moonlight Bivouac :  A Real though Unconventional Experience."

The conventional idea is that one lies down under the light of the stars, thinking perhaps of the battle to take place next day, or of the friends far away.  The real experience is the same as far as the moonlight or starlight is concerned.  On most cases everyone being dead tired is asleep before there is much time for thought.  Then sleep is disturbed, not by the booming of the enemy's cannon, or anything half so romantic, but by some horrible half-starved horses, or mules, who have pulled up the pegs to which they are tethered, come wandering through the camp, sometimes singly, at others tied together and fighting for the nose bag which they have brought with them or found lying on the ground.  In the case in point, they stepped on and pulverised the water bottle of an officer, and this is a serious matter on active service.

Condition is Very Good.