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places for two such gastronomic experts as we. His M.C. came later, but it was well deserved.
Ginger Allan is in the thick of it now. He was right through the Bullecourt stunt without a scratch, whilst I was ignominiously knocked flat a week or so before the first onslaught. His brother has sent me two letters & two telegrams within a week, the former explaining why he was coming up to London & the latter why he wasn't. Whi Wishing to seem officious & a war-warn veteran, I reproached him roundly for being no more than a private. If my well-meaning advice has any effect, or if short-sighted authorities can see the right stuff when it is before their very eyes, he will go to a school, which will teach him nothing, but may result in the alteration of his uniform.