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it will be 7 piastres, 5, and 3 and as we pass out of earshot a faint "two" aj comes to us from the distance.
We witnessed for 1 piastre "The cancan", a dance supposed to be very horrible, but I thought the whole performance too silly to be even disgusting. Two naked women paraded in with a sort of slow ungainly step around the room accompanied by the beating of a kind of drum or tom tom. In this place earlier in the evening I was told, one girl who had offended an Australian soldier in some way, had been most cruelly maltreated by him, and was even then in a state of collapse in the same building. Truly there are some beauties amongst us.
At our own camp, we have a good canteen, and at last we are away from wowserism, for
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