Short and Singular Rations

Short story from Twain's collection of works The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and Other Sketches. On Monday, the thirty-eighth day after the disaster, "we had nothing left," said the third mate, "but a pound and a half of ham – the bone was a good deal the heaviest part of it – and one soup-and-bully tin." These things were divided among the fifteen men, and they ate it all – two ou...