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staring towards the field. We had to go to lecture just the same and not till after the suspense of the hour was over did we learn the details.
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Major C.B'd us yesterday for the sake of that icicle of the army-discipline. We failed to show up Sunday a.m. at 6:30 so he called us to his little office at 11 oclock and "confined us to Barracks". for a week. And I shined my boots and slicked my hair just to go to his headquarters to hear that doled out to us. It doesn't rankle much though because town is too far away!

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"Laundry" Smith (18 years old - just rejoined the crowd after being detained in Toronto) said his father gave him the advice to "go west, young man, go west!" He says if he does his dad will be worth $10,000 more and after all there is something good about this "going west" idea. He's worth more dead than alive, like a good many of us.