salt horse

"So long as you don't have to eat salt horse, you ought to consider yourself lucky," retorted Rector.

These consisted of three or four bags of ship's biscuit and a number of large pieces of boiled salt horse.

A deputation waited upon the captain to protest and demand their proper rations of "salt horse."

The "salt horse" which was served out for breakfast aboard the Royal James made scant appeal to the Delaware boy's appetite.

They worked at the rope-tarring till suppertime, then rose wearily, stretching, and went for their salt-horse and biscuit.