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232about "lights out". Coming back to our hut, I started to lay my bed down when the bugle blew. I kept my candle burning.
There was a new corporal in the hut. He said put the light out. I was going hard to finish the bed and said "just a little while" however he was adamant and went to fetch the guard to put me into detention – "clink" as it was termed.
I thought well, it's no use spending the night there if I can get out of it, so I went to the Sergt-Major and gained his permission to have the light till I made the bed properly. The corporal was saying to me when I got back "come on away with the guard". I said the
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