noon
Parties were sent out to bring in other natives to take the place of those who gave out . One of the men thus brought in was paralyzed on one side and carried a crutch . The soldiers made sport of him , snatched the crutch from him , and made him pull as best he could with the rest . Sam , Cleary , and an Anglian officer who had served through the whole war took a long walk together back from the river during the halt at noon . They entered a deserted house , with gables and a tiled roof , which by chance had not been burned . The house had been looted , and such of its contents as were too large to carry away were lying broken to bits about the floor . A nasty smell came from an inner room , and they looked in and saw the whole family -- father , mother , and three daughters -- lying dead in a row on the floor .