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September, 1915Sunday 19This is a Teetotal shop & today I sent a nigger to an Hotel (open on Sundays) for a bottle of Johnnie Walker, gave him a small bag to put it in so as O/C would not see it.-My consternation nigger returned still with the bag in one hand& the bottle in the other - Officers take it in turns to provide stimulants – as you know I'm not keen on it; hence the yarn.Some of these subalterns never had so much money before & they make regular fools of themselves & all not fit to lead horses to water others the best stuff in the world.
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