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On the end page of W T Palmer's 1939 book, there's an illustration of two exhausted but very contented little penguins, reposing on their haversacks.

From BBC • Apr. 2, 2018

Said dramatic Mr. Hore-Belisha: "It is a time when the nation must sleep on its haversacks."

From Time Magazine Archive

A handful of spectators watched the Dyaks unload their sleeping mats and haversacks from the trucks.

From Time Magazine Archive

Blankets, knapsacks, haversacks, here and there muskets, wagons, one overturned in a slough, one with its tongue broken, tents, harnesses, oats, corn, flour, tent-poles, were confusedly scattered along the way.

From The Boys of '61 or, Four Years of Fighting, Personal Observations with the Army and Navy by Coffin, Charles Carleton

They filled their haversacks with it, and all that day, at every halt, pulled it out to taste and marvel at the magic plant.

From Life in an Indian Outpost by Casserly, Gordon