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236good advised him not to keep company with him. When he had secured my advice he went back and told the other chap what I had said! Of course under the circumstances he came and reprimanded me for what I had done and at 12 o'clock that night when all was silent and the troops were asleep I heard a rustling amongst the straw and then felt somebody's hand on which was some honey rubbed into my face and hair. So ends the story of how I tried to do a good turn to a young chap.
I struck some guard duty here. I didn't appreciate it at all owing to the fact that it was so unbroken. One would put in
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