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6. you to give Mother one of each, as I did not have them in time to enclose them in her letter. These will probably be the last you will get for awhile. I suppose you sometimes wonder how the toes are getting on, well so far they have not been too bad, only in the cold weather they shake me up a bit. Some of the chaps, who have come back from the peninsular, reckon that they would give a small fortune to possess them, to get them home. I've stood them so far, & guess I will till the end of the job. Tonight I have to go on guard, a little different to the last time, for then I was sergeant of the guard.
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