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21. Rations served out early this morning.
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I have forgotten to mention before that there are about six hundred prisoners in this room, divided into squads of twenty.
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One man draws the rations for the twenty and cuts it up.
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Each man has a number from one to twenty.
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The twenty rations are put out separately on the floor, and one turns his back and the sergeant points to a ration and says, "Who takes this ?"
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and the man with his back turned to the ration says- "one," "two," "five" or "ten," as the case may be, on up till the twenty are served.
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This is done to prevent the sergeant from showing any favor to any particular one.
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