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or of how I charged a Howitzer Battery – slaughtered the gunners and carried the Guns away on my back –

Why John Falstaff was a fool and Don Quixode pales into the realms of the unknown by way of comparison.

Platoon Commanders censor their platoons letters. It is somewhat interesting. My own are censored by –

Soldiers generally are considered to have an elastic imagination, but oh, such liberties some take with the truth. Some of their letters almost make me feel indignant – One impossible, writing home to his people told of how he had received his first wound – a bullet an inch and a half or two inches into his head – as a matter of fact it was a piece of periscope glass; the doctor picked it out with a needle –

A rather violent Artillery duel has been in progress here these few days – I think it the prelude to – (big work)

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