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as bandicoots. But we wont be long now. I have tried half a dozen times to finish this letter but keep on meeting with interruptions. It will be a mighty poor letter when it does get away...
I will just tell you this story. It happens to be true. A wounded soldier at the hospital here got a lady I know to write home for him. He had his jaw badly wounded and a bullet through the neck, and he started his letter "Dear Mother & father, I hope this finds you as well as it leaves me at present"
Another chap sent a letter from the Dardanelles & it was not censored. It ran: "Dear Aunt, this war is a fair cow. Your affectionate nephew". and that was all. The best one was one from the front. It was "My darling Helen, I would far rather be sleeping with you than with two dead Turks in a trench". I hope Helen was his wife, anyhow.
At the hospitals here the most extraordinary thing - So
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