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as to which I should begin on. In the end I read the preface to each and then settled down to the "Scarlet Letter." The prologue on the "Custom's House" proved too much for me, but when I tackled the real story I soon became interested and am now half way through it. Just at present I have plenty of time for reading but that won't last long.
Truly one leads a precarious and very varied life in the Military. Only the other day (I have to be vague) I was living in an old hut without a floor and dripping at the roof and it was a real feat to walk outside as the mud was ankle deep and

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