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their hands. But being a bit of a fatalist I resigned myself to the inevitable, starved for three weeks and then succeeded in persuading the M.O. that I was well enough to quit.

Our Head qtrs are in Baghdad so I reported and then waited till they should find something for me to do. In the interim I paid several visits to the bazaars, finding the same old smells, dogs and dirt of earlier days. I am certain that the Bazaars of Baghdad have not altered in the slightest since the days when Haroun-er-Raschid, Commander of the Faithful made Ali Sakal shave the ass as a punishment for sharp practices.   This gentleman must have been rather

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