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[Page 144]

For the past week a young woman dressed in tatters and slippers has been trudging about in the rain through the wet and muddy streets with a very young infant in her arms begging for food. She has paid regular visits to our Mess for food and she has not been denied I am pleased to say What soldier could? The last time I saw her was yesterday morning and she had somehow gage acquired a perambulator for her child and seemed a good deal happier than on other days. Several times I have spoken to her and she has answered in a voice so low and so full of misery that I have been unable to "compree"

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