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or not and all the rest of the every

day news a little good advise does

come amiss to a boy in a strange land

I will try and write you as good a letter

as you did.  The other night when the

brigade officer was making the rounds

it was verry dark and just as one of

the sentry chalenged them

(who comes there) (one of them bumped his

shin on a little stump) and by so doing

he said the devil the guard says

halt the devil advance one of his

imps and give the countersign and

as he approached the sentinal he said

to him self (that hurt like the d – l)

the guard says that is not the countersign

you stand and mark time or I will

shoot you and he keept them there

until the seargent came and let

them pass.  The other night I had

mind to leave camp and find where

our officers passed away their evenings